Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!
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I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.
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It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up.
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I have to grow with my audience.
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It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-'80s, and we had the '85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.
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You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning.
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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
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We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
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I feel growing up in Mumbai is an advantage, as we grow up speaking so many languages that when we go abroad, it becomes easier to learn new languages.
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I'm just going to have to grow old, because I'm too terrified to have anything done.
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I don't ever want to grow up. That's boring.
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When people say this isn't the America they grew up in, they're right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.
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I love finding things that scare me and doing them. That's how you grow.
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I'm a big believer in the notion that our greatest potential lies in our darkest parts. To a certain extent it's only in facing those parts of ourselves that we can truly grow, and I think that's true of all of the characters I've played, certainly in the past few years.
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I don't snack a lot, because I didn't grow up snacking.
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when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority.
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The greatest successes grow out of great failures. In numerous instances the result is better that comes after a series of abortive experiences than it would have been if it had come at once; for all these successive failures induce a skill which is so much additional power working into the final achievement.... The hand that evokes such perfect music from the instrument has often failed in its touch, and bungled among the keys.... Every disappointed effort fences in and indicates the only possible path of success, and makes it easier to find.
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My work at R.E.I. was incredibly fulfilling and rewarding, especially the stewardship elements of it, the ability to connect young people to public lands close to home.
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Every weekend, I'm on the highway to Antwerp. I need to be there, to have the calm. It's a whole different life: I jump on my bike, and it's so small, I can be anywhere in a minute. I like to be at home when there's free time because when you're at a big company, you're constantly surrounded by 30 people.
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You get used to working with one choreographer. You kind of get stuck in that vein and you work your way out of it, picking up someone else's style, their flavor. It takes a bit of time.
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The older we grow, the greater become the ordeals.
