Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
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I had long had an instinct about there being a role for me in a creative industry. Maybe I didn't listen to that voice as much earlier on, but when it had become a deafening sound in my head I realised I had to go and explore it.
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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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A weightlifter should be able to do everything and borrow things from other sports to beat competitors.
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When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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I think Donald Trump taps into an anger that I hear every day. People are angry that a commonsense thing like securing the border or ending sanctuary cities is somehow considered extreme. It's not extreme; it's common sense. We need to secure the border.
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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
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So somebody told me that if I wasn't a coffee drinker yet, by the end of college I'd have to be, because a math major is so tough I would have to stay up very late. I was going to need coffee to do that. Well, merely because they said that, I never drank coffee in college, never got addicted to it, never needed it.
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I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.
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There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.
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I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.
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Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me. Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.
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I have four horses, and they are my everything.
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All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
