Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
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The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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We were descended from royalty.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.
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I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
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The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.
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Medicine, you have to take it. A vitamin is nice to have, but honestly, you can skip it.
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I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.
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One thing that has made us so successful is that we've never taken outside investment. That means we can concentrate on what our customers want - not what the stockholders or the VCs want.
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What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.
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We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
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TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.
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I think my first hit was probably '24 is a Rubberband Man,' which was my second album. My first project, it was very well received in the Southeast region, all throughout the South and parts of the Midwest. It was very well received, but I didn't get national exposure on my second album.
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When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.
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Today is different, and tomorrow the same.It's hard to take the world the way that it came.Too many rapids keep us sweeping along.Too many captains keep on steering us wrong.It's hard to take the heat.It's hard to lay blame.To fight the fire, while we're feeding the flames. - Second Nature (1987)
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I am thinking, therefore I exist. I was a substance whose whole essence or nature is solely to think, and which does not require any place, or depend on any material thing, in order to exist. Accordingly this 'I' - that is, the soul by which I am what I am - is entirely distinct from the body, and indeed is easier to know than the body, and would not fail to be whatever it is, even if the body did not exist.
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I think games are a good medium for approaching any subject, particularly difficult ones, because by their very nature, they are abstract, invite interaction and allow us to confront and question things... particularly rules that we may blindly follow.
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Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think that I can do better.
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Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule.
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By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
