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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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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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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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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Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting.
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Science fiction was rocket-mad for about 40 years until aerospace hit a brick wall about 1970. I would not write off space colonisation or exploration completely, but we are profoundly ill adapted for going boldly into outer space.
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Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.
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I'm a fun song maker. I love to make people smile. I also love to see them big, burly dudes crying because their wives' song is 'Die a Happy Man.'
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Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.
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It's only fashion that has said the pendulum has swung from extreme skepticism about extraterrestrial life to extreme credulity. The truth is somewhere in between.
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More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another.
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The greatest human attainment in all the world is for a life to be so surrendered to Him that the name of God Almighty will be glorified through that life.
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It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.
