Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I just know that when I go onstage, I give everything I have, not only my feet, not only my legs, not only my body. I try to tell a story. Sometimes I am able to cry because I feel like it. Sometimes I am able to love because I feel like it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.

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The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

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If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.

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I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. . . . In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or is dehumanized.

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Everything is hard before it is easy.

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