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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When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.
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I've worked with the great and the not-so-great. But mostly I've worked with men and women who loved their profession, and who like me, had kids to raise and houses to pay for.
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I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men - at least they can cry.
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High politic is only common sense applied to great things.
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I was a huge ham in school in Atlanta.
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Women are silver dishes into which we put golden apples.
