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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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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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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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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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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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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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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Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
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I never could see that delicacy of constitution is pretty, either in plants or women. No doubt there are many lovely flowers to be had by heat and constant coaxing, but then for each of these there are fifty others still lovelier that will gratefully grow in God's wholesome air and are blessed in return with a far greater intensity of scent and colour.
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Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
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Americans are big boys. You can talk them into almost anything. Just sit with them for half an hour over a bottle of whiskey and be a nice guy.
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Whatever doubts or vexations one has in Japan, it is only necessary to ask one's self: 'Well, who are the best people to live with?'
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Women are silver dishes into which we put golden apples.
