Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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When you speak directly at things and don't say you're going to try to do something or that you hope to do something, the universe will work with you. Think about it this way - a boomerang goes out and comes back to you if you throw it. If you throw it out at the universe, it will come back down to you on Earth.
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There is no ideal body. It's just taking what you have and working it.
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I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.
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I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key.
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The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.
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I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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Well, to take me from where I was, and the life I was leading, to the life I lead now with the church and with the Lord and with Jesus Christ, it's a total, total turn–around.
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Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.
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About once every four days, someone comes up to me and is like, 'Hey, I know you from somewhere.'
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If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how is it that the book is what it is?
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Unattractive people are more obsessed with looks.
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I like to hang on to cars. I'm not one of these guys that goes flipping cars all the time. If I find a car I like, I stick with it.
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I like to go into things, and I like to make the most bold choice to tell the particular story being told.
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Women's studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting dirigibles. Our best women students are being force-fed an appalling diet of cant, drivel and malarkey.
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Ugly is very popular this year...I had a feeling these clothes were deigned by someone who didn't like women.
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The English eat all sorts of birds - pigeons, ducks, sparrows - but if you tell them you eat puffin, you might as well come from Mars.
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Women are silver dishes into which we put golden apples.
