Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Piety is not an end but a means to attain by the greatest peace of mind the highest degree of culture.
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I get depressed at airports.
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He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
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I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
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Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
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My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
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I'm to a point now where you want to play for your fans and all that, but I'm playing for the guys in that huddle. I'm playing for the guys in that locker room.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.
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I'm stronger and sassier as a redhead.
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It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.
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I'd never rule anything out, to be honest with you, whether it be the small of volunteer status for a community organization or national politics, who knows?
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In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there's definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I'm also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources.
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The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.
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But, I've always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant.
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The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
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My mom always talks about how hard it was to grow up in a political family. It's always split up, and just - I want to have fun in life. No, politics isn't on the list.
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I am not averse to politics, but that does not mean that I am going to join politics.
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I know a lot of people who read 'Sweet Tooth' are the kind of people who don't read a lot of other comics. Whatever it was, I'm just glad it happened.
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Sweet, can I sing you the song of your kisses?How soft is this one, how subtle this is,How fluttering swift as a bird's kiss that is,As a bird that taps at a leafy lattice;How this one clings and how that unclosesFrom bud to flower in the way of roses.
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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
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Piety is not an end but a means to attain by the greatest peace of mind the highest degree of culture.
