Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look round.
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I have really high expectations for myself, so I just want to go out there and compete.
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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
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I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.
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The criteria, the only rule you should follow - the only rule - is to never touch a product or service unless, every time it is sold, part of the profit has to come back to you.
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People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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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 don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my friends are musicians; I hear music all the time. But I don't have my own collection of music.
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I've run my whole life - for more than exercise, for mental health.
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When we came to Iraq, we didn't understand the complexity - what it meant for a society to live under a brutal dictatorship with ethnic and sectarian divisions. When we first got here, we made a lot of mistakes. We were like a blind man, trying to do the right thing but breaking a lot of things.
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Just like the Internet disrupted the publishing industry, we're going to see Bitcoin micropayments creating some very interesting opportunities for pay-as-you-go, pay-based-on-time online businesses and, frankly, some risks as well to the traditional business model as to how things get sold online.
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I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I'm recording to two-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.
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There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important.
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For me, even if I'm singing to a very large audience, like in 'The Sound of Music Live' or in the 'She Loves Me' broadcast, I try to imagine that I am just singing to each individual. It doesn't change my energy other than being perhaps a bit more nervous. I try to sing to each person and right into their individual heart.
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This has been a trend for a long time; the days of lifetime employment are long since over.
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A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.
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The metaphor I've used is... somebody's going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon, and I won't be there to catch them. And that breaks my heart. But I have some time to sew some nets to cushion the fall. So, I can curl up in a ball and cry, or I can get to work on the nets.
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You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.
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I always have sort of been someone who has contradictory parts, and I haven't tried to uncomplicate myself. I've sort of let things seem contradictory, and sometimes it really confuses people. I don't know if it's working all the time, but I'd rather do that than try to sell myself as one thing or another.
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I believe the world to be a muffin pan, and there certainly are a lot of muffins here.
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We can't accept that it's O.K. if only some kids get to go to college.
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But I wondered, how would I feel about killing someone? Now I know. It’s no big deal.
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Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look round.
