Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.
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I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.
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Well, it is curious what lasts and what doesn't. Publishing empires and whatnot would pay anything to figure it out. But they can't figure it out.
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I will count to 10 before tweeting.
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I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.
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I want everyone to know what they deserve in relationships: that they can demand equality and kindness. Because everyone will have a relationship at some point in their life. It's what we all do, every day, and we need to know how to do it.
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There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.
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I've wanted to be an actor since I was 6 years old. I was literally picked off the streets of Paris... while I was modeling there. I was asked to audition for Oliver Stone's 'Alexander.' I didn't get the part, but that led to commercials and roles in South Africa.
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Everything you do is an opportunity cost. Learn to say 'No'
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I have attempted to write the following account of myself, as if I were a dead man in another world looking back at my own life. Nor have I found this difficult, for life is nearly over with me. I have taken no pains about my style of writing.
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As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer's ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions - into something original that alters or deepens my understanding of both literature and life.
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My dream was to have a garage where I could put some of the coolest cars I've ever seen throughout my life.
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Somehow we got used to death, and then we dehumanised it. We account for conflicts in figures. Ebola is 13,500 infected, 5,000 people have died... People are losing their sense of empathy, their sense of wanting to do something.
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Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can't deal with life, or the truth.
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It wasn't like I was specifically wanting to write songs about technology. It's just what I lived, what I was experiencing growing up.
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Art has to be reflective of our society.
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Everything's viewed with a political lens in Washington, and that's just the nature of the beast, and it is what it is.
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Think about your future possibilities and the fact that your potential is virtually unlimited. You can do what you want to do and go where you want to go. You can be the person you want to be. You can set large and small goals and make plans and move step-by-step, progressively toward their realization. There are no obstacles to what you can accomplish except the obstacles that you create in your mind.
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Whenever we had career day at elementary school, and we could dress up like what you wanted to be, when I got on stage, mine was playing major league baseball.
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Today, nearly 40 percent of a senior's healthcare spending is on pharmaceutical medications.
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It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.
