Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
The fine emotions whence our lives we mold Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold.
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Surprise is key in all art.
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.
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So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.
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My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
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My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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I went to Australia and did a three day hike with my fiance through the wilderness, which was nice.
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My grandmother knitted me a crochet top when I was 15. I still fit into it and will never give it away.
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I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.
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I don't have any ill will or ill thought towards anybody.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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My father had a real short fuse. He had a tough life - had to support his mother and brother at a very young age when his dad's farm collapsed. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one. My father was full of terrifying anger.
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When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.
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I love Le'Veon Bell.
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I was very fortunate to grow up with parents who love to travel, so I traveled from a young age. My dad's a heart surgeon and goes to conferences all over the world. By the time I was seven, I traveled outside the country for the first time. We went to Paris. The next year, we went to London, and then Brussels.
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Wanted: a man who is larger than his calling, who considers it a low estimate of his occupation to value it merely as a means of getting a living.
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It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
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...but the air's flat and stale and the people half-hearted. There's nothing to do there. You can make love without trouble or meaning, or get mildly drunk, or extract second-hand emotions from the cinema, or put your mind to sleep on a dance-floor, or play bridge, or throw yourself in front of a train on the Underground. There are forty ways of escaping from consciousness. But I want something more exciting than that.
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I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.
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The fine emotions whence our lives we mold Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold.
