Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
No two people see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will often apply the same principle, recognized by both, differently. Even one and the same person won't always maintain the same views and judgments: earlier convictions must give way to later ones.
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The views of religious-Zionist rabbis are of course worthy of being heard, yet they represent a very defined and very narrow camp within the Israeli spectrum. This is not the way to shape the perception of future division and brigade commanders.
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Having an understanding of what's possible also makes me redouble my efforts to fight those who stand in the way of doing the things that my constituents and the country would want to get done.
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When you're in a songwriting class, and you write a song, and you hand it in to a teacher to grade, I'm still going to say that it's a really awesome song whether I got an A or a D. I learned to stick to my guns and take the tools as tools and not as rules.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.
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I hate the way chorus boxes sound.
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The way it works at Julliard is that you just perform with people who are in your own class.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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My first songs were about animals and shoes. I wrote one song about PF Flyers, and one to my fish.
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I like rock music because it's always sonically fascinating. There's never a method to what it needs to sound like. It's just however that instrument comes out that day, whatever the humidity level was in the air, what studio you were at. All that makes that tone that you can't re-create, so each song is like a person.
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I have to earn re-election. That's the way I see it.
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Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
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Government can do best by simply getting out of the way.
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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
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I started gigging when I was about 16, and I was way too young to be in the clubs.
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For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.
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Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.
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In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.
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Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable.
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Capital goes to where it can escape taxation and be used to pay employees in sacks of rice.
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He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!
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No two people see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will often apply the same principle, recognized by both, differently. Even one and the same person won't always maintain the same views and judgments: earlier convictions must give way to later ones.
