Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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With the release of her fourth album, 'Red,' in 2012 and a handful of highly publicized romances, Taylor was criticized by the press and other entertainers for such sinful acts as dating people and writing songs about it, gaining a reputation as boy-crazy and love-ridden.
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I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me in the kitchen. I was only cooking for three people most of the time.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me.
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I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We've been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's helping change people's lives, and I've had lots of wonderful letters about it.
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It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.
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I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases 'neutral facial expression' and 'screaming in agony.'
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The Internet is changing what entertainment and sports is. It's not just a few people authoring an experience for others. It's really growing out of what everybody does.
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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
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I'm just very pleased and thankful that there was a receptive audience of people that I was able to connect with.
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I think it's important for people of colour to have similar opportunities to white people; that's what is most important.
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The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.
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If you stop and think about who was in the 'Lassie' movies, it's difficult to think who was in them, apart from Elizabeth Taylor. You remember the dog, not the people! So if you're going to be in a movie, and it's called 'Gremlins', it's going to be about Gremlins, and what people are going to remember are the Gremlins.
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Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.
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I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.
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There are people who are good for letters and others that are good for numbers.
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I used to like humorous people in the past, but these days, I like serious people more.
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The campaign to put a woman on the $20 bill has narrowed the choices down to four finalists. The four finalists are Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Flo from the Progressive Insurance ads.
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Playwriting is the last great bastion of the individual writer. It's exciting precisely because it's where the money isn't. Money goes to safety, to consensus. It's not individualism.
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I was really raised in a gender-neutral household. I always knew I was a girl, but it never occurred to me that there was a limitation.
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I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.
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People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.
