Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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Most high-level models that I've ever met are actually well-travelled; they're cultured, and no guy laying a cheesy line on them is actually going to impact their world.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
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The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
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I really like looking at what's new in my favourite designers' stores, even if I don't buy anything.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons; some of them dig into deep things that I've been going through - there's a joy that I think people feel from my music and, hopefully, from my performance because I am so in love with doing what I do.
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Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
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Christians are being systematically exterminated.
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My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline - she always says, 'Mummy, keep the door open,' when I'm filling up the car. I've heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world - maybe that's something to study for my next fragrance!
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
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No one has a right to comment on anyone's life or the choices I do or don't make.
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Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.
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My first time coming over to North America was to New York around Christmastime when I was 7. My mom was a flight attendant, and she got put on to the Trans-Atlantic route over Christmastime, so she brought the whole family.
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A great piece of literature does not try to coerce you to believe it or agree with it. A great piece of literature simply is. It is a vehicle of truth, but it is not a blueprint, and we tend to confuse the two.
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Failure is a great learning tool.
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In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is still strong enough to sustain an anti-Jewish political party.
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped on concrete.
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Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.
