Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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I think shoppers are looking for newness and creativity. Look at C. Wonder, for instance. They're dancing in our stores. We don't believe in retail like retail was done in the past. We believe in disrupting the whole environment, offering them amazing value in an amazing package of fun, excitement and whimsy.
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I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.
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I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
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I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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How often do we see a Muslim woman who is intelligent and independent, and has a voice of her own and is career-driven, on American TV?
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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He's this amazing ambassador for all superheroes. What we've made as a film not only examines that but is also an amazing adventure story. It's been an honor to work on. As a comic book fan, Superman is like the Rosetta Stone of all superheroes.
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Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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For years I've been hearing 20-somethings say they don't expect Social Security to be around when they hit 65. Eventually, I came to realize that they really mean that they just don't expect to be 65. Or 40. Neither did I, when I was 22.
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Graffiti writers were the most interesting people in hip hop. They were the mad scientists, the mad geniuses, the weird ones.
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I think a lot of guys want a son because of all of the things they do while growing up. A lot of guys want to share those experiences with their own sons.
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I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.
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Patty Griffin is iconic, and there's no other word to really describe her. She is iconic for a lot of people - not only for me but for a lot of fans. Her voice is one of a kind, and she's such an important figure in the American music scene.
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You and I, as citizens, have the obligation to shape the debates of our time, not only with the votes we cast, but the voices we lift in defense of our most ancient values and enduring ideas.
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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
