Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.
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It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.
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I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.
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If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.
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I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course.
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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.
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I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.
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I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
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I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.
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Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
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Know or listen to those who know.
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I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody else knew stuff that I didn't know.
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We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer.
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You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.
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We all know in our hearts that forgiveness is the right thing; it's just a matter of being inspired to reach that place.
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I felt like an outsider. The only time you get to really know guys is on the ice, and I couldn't be there.
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I was an emotional manipulator of fighters . . . You have to know how to be cold, you know? Just have no -emotions, no feelings. It takes time, though, to develop that. I'd been working on that since I was 12 years old. It doesn't happen overnight.
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We were very creative. There was nothing contrived about us. No one telling us what to do, what to wear, what to sing. We wrote our own material, chose our producers.
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Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
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When women and men can shed an equal quantity of tears in public, that's when we'll have equal power.
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Technological revolutions are very hard to predict. My favourite example is someone in 1850 taking care of horses as a farrier. They would have said, "Look, horses have been part of human existence for 5,000 years. We are horse people. It's permanent." But all of a sudden, the internal combustion engine comes along and, with it, oil fields and automobiles, which basically replace the horse completely. So we often have these long periods of stability and then a sudden inflection point.
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To know where a thing is we must have found it.
