Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely violent. It was a very free landscape.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.
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The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.
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When I speak of artistic universals, I am not denying the enormous role played by culture. Obviously culture plays a tremendous role, otherwise you wouldn't have different artistic styles - but it doesn't follow that art is completely idiosyncratic and arbitrary, either, or that there are no universal laws.
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But a funny thing happened four years later. I was invited to play for an alumni team against the Red Wings.
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I really like working with unique and unknown artists, as they usually bring something fresh to a song.
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For every problem or confusion and for every desire or ambition there is an available force waiting for your call.
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Meanwhile, among all its countless other effects upon human culture, Starglider had brought to its climax a process that was already well under way. It had put an end to the billions of the words of pious gibberish with which apparently intelligent men had addled their minds for centuries.
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I've always believed that who a reporter votes for, what religion they are, who they love, should not be something they have to discuss publicly.
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I got lost in the night, without the light of your eyelids, and when the night surrounded me I was born again: I was the owner of my own darkness.
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There is a great difference between a young man looking for a situation and one looking for work.
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What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
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The sage knows himself, but does not parade. He cherishes himself, but does not praise himself.
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It is interesting to see how far we've come as a society since then. But also how everybody keeps touching [Ronald] Reagan and trying to evoke him.
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If we ask God for a calm, thankful heart that sees all the blessings His grace imparts, He can teach us many lessons in illness that can never be learned in health.
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The only way for us to have long-term happiness is to live by our highest ideals.
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A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
