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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: german
Birth: August 28, 1749 - March 22, 1832

Topics

Perfection Man Enough Admit Insight

My degree was in education, but the idea of being a teacher lost out to being a reporter. I worked at a newspaper for a while, then went to New York and worked in PR at RCA and NBC, and at 'The United States Steel Hour,' a drama series.

Joan Ganz Cooney

Education Teacher New York Drama New

It's very easy for me to laugh at myself and laugh at life.

Matthew Ashford

Life Myself Me Laugh Easy Very

When I started out in the late '80s, my act was pretty terrible, and for years, I kind of toiled in obscurity. I don't believe in a hierarchy in comedy; I feel that a person deserves respect the first time they get onstage, and after that, they just have to be funny and get more consistent.

Funny Respect Time Believe Comedy

Dancers know how to move their arms and their hands. But I don't know the first thing about how to move my arms and hands gracefully.

Hands Know First Dancers Move Arms

It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence.

Live Decision Impossible Logic Seen

I love to swim. When I jump in the water, I feel like I'm 12 years old again. It's really funny how it does that to me.

Funny Love Water Me Feel Jump

I like to be part of the change I want to see in the world. Not being afraid of criticism is actually a big advantage.

Change World Criticism Want See Big

Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.

Sit Sofa Ideology Shaped Very Which

Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television.

Feel Powerful Television Talk Radio

You know, I don't think of myself as anything like a 'global citizen' or anything of the sort. I am just a Nigerian who's comfortable in other places.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Myself I Am Think You Know Citizen

If you grew up where I grew up, you would experience a very different criminal justice system than Camden, New Jersey.

Justice Experience You New System

There's a song called 'My Faith' that's kind of my spiritual song on my record. It's a little bit of my softer side of me, comin' out of left field a little bit.

Brantley Gilbert

Faith Spiritual Me Song Kind Out

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