Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.
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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.
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Our troops do an incredible job every single day, but our policymakers have not lived up to the sacrifices that our troops make every day.
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I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook and talk.
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I'm a pro-horserace guy.
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Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.
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I didn't really have a mentor, but I have always definitely been inspired by the '70s - the Stones, Patti Smith, Anita Pallenberg.
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Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.
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I don't need to impress children.
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I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.
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I really do believe some people are naturally novelists and some people are short story writers. For me, when I was in middle school or high school, I started with novels.
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The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
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My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.
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I believe when things are going well, there's pressure, and when things are going bad, there's pressure. The pressure is more on the outside than inside.
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So closely interwoven have been our lives, our purposes, and experiences that, separated, we have a feeling of incompleteness--united, such strength of self-association that no ordinary obstacles, difficulties, or dangers ever appear to us insurmountable.
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Working at Perfekt, Got me down on my knees. Success to failure, Just a matter of degrees. Working at Perfekt, Got me down on my knees...
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We can fight Big Industry.
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Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.
