Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
Zadie Smith
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
Nanci Griffith
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I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
J. K. Simmons
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
Ira Glass
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There's a finite amount of time on this planet for each of us. Sometimes, the only way we figure out how to deal with that reality - knowing that there will be an end to every story, and you don't know how many chapters are left in your book - is by living in denial.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
Floyd Patterson
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A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.
P. T. Barnum
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Art is something that grows and breathes and lives, and it shouldn't be predicated on the success of box office - but it is. But within that, you have to give people a chance to find their voice, to play, to continue to create.
Ava DuVernay
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People talk a lot about the Jackson's but then when you think about it, there is quite a lot to talk about.
Jackie Jackson
The Jacksons
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We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things at once. Some people do best studying in structured, linear way, while others do best jumping around, surrounding a subject rather than traversing it. Some people prefer to learn by manipulating models, and others by reading.
Bill Gates
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Growing up with three boys in a heavily male-dominated world, I especially needed to express myself as a woman.
Elisabeth Shue
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It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
