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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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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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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Even at my biggest, I want to be writing for other artists. Even at my peak - the highest I can be as an artist - I always want to be keeping my creative juices flowing, keeping money in the bank, putting my intellectual property out there.
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Reaching the summit of a mountain gives great satisfaction, but nothing for me has been more rewarding in life than the result of our climb on Everest, when we have devoted ourselves to the welfare of our Sherpa friends.
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You can have a very bad end with Parkinson's, but on the other hand, you can be like me, because I'm lucky. I'm not having a bad end.
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Some people collect stamps, other people like to be famous. I don't have that hobby.
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Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.
