Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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The White House is the people's house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is.
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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
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I wasn't a good student in high school. I mean, I got through it, but unless it had something to do with music, it didn't really interest me.
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I don't look at myself as a Scream Queen, and I don't plan on continuing on this genre route. If anything, I want to go very different places.
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In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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As President Obama clearly said just a few months ago, China must play by the international rules, the international trading system from which they've benefited so much.
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I've always listened to and loved country music ever since I was a kid.
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You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.
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I felt uncomfortable in cliques.
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I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.
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I used to clean the sets and serve tea to the artistes.
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Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?
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Well, it's very dangerous to project, but it's clear that the existing technology has some more years to go.
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I did record a bunch of stuff, but the thing that usually stops me from doing that is that I'm a terrible singer. I made a bunch of instrumental music, and it feels really good, but just as a singer, I'm not good.
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It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous.
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I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.
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If you can get yourself to read 30 minutes a day, you're going to double your income every year.
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Wisdom, thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten.
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Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.
