Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Most people, when they hear the disease name, it's all they know about it. It sounds so mild. When I first was sick, for the first 10 years or so, I was dismissed. I was ridiculed and told I was lazy. It was a joke.
Laura Hillenbrand -
I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.
Kacey Musgraves -
Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.
Paolo Sorrentino -
We don't understand why we're here, no one's giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can't help because they're just people, and it's all terrible, and there's no meaning to anything.
Adam Driver -
People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.
Nate Silver -
I'm fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do evil. Not just the big things - the petty things that people do in order to make someone feel small, when it's so easy to do, and it hurts so much.
Forest Whitaker
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Marketing is more important than it has ever been. But I'm trying to tear the layers back and make it not so contrived. I think people just want entertainment.
Usher -
I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.
Zoe Kazan -
The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
Lafcadio Hearn -
I'm not that involved in personal grooming. But I try not to be offensive to people.
Viggo Mortensen -
It's such a small industry here you inevitably end up working with the same people over and over again. There are only so many actors to go around, which is good for us.
Karl Urban -
But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
Captain Beefheart
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
Nancy Gibbs -
I don't think people understand the model-minority stereotype is negative. You are boxed in. You have to untangle that to find your own path.
Eddie Huang -
People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.
Hale Irwin -
As an author, you're really grateful for the people who are supporting you, but on some other level, that can be a dangerous echo chamber.
Paolo Bacigalupi -
Sometimes black people really want to hold onto our oppression - 'This is ours! This belongs to us.' You can't just talk about equality for somebody else. Let's pass it on. Let's pass it on to somebody else. At the end of the day, it is all about inequality.
Wanda Sykes -
Normally, some people think about 50 as a big moment in life. I kind of think 30 because in your baseball career, 30 was considered on top kind of looking at the end of your career. So I remember thinking about 30 in different ways, but 50 just seems like another step right now.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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Far too many times over the next 12 to 15 years, it was brought to my attention that people who followed my exercise guidelines exactly but ignored their diet, their weight and their cigarette smoking had heart attacks at age 55.
Kenneth H. Cooper -
I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old.
Sarah Vowell -
Here's the question for my fellow Republicans: Do we want to be the first-ever GOP House majority to raise federal marginal income tax rates?
John Fleming -
Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
Samuel Johnson -
I think that the opportunity to be a kid another year and not have to not worry about the responsibilities of paying bills, and worry about getting an agent and worry about getting an accountant was important.
Jason Williams -
The people rate strength before everything.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe