Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
Randy Bachman
The Guess Who
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
Iris Apfel
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My grandpa would come in with water and flick it on our faces at 6 A.M. and be like, 'If you don't get up to feed the horses, you don't get to ride them.' We'd get up.
Cam
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I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.
Barbara Cook
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One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.
Danica Patrick
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I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, 'If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.'
Taylor Swift
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As soon as a disease is diagnosed, we still need someone to deliver the care.
Frans van Houten
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From natural disasters to the refugee crises, the impact we can have as individuals might seem limited. But as many of our hosts know, sharing your home for even a few nights can make a tremendous difference in someone's life.
Joe Gebbia
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When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before.
Arthur Hailey
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My inspiration for songs is just everyday life. I just write down words about things that have happened to me, people I've met.
Paolo Nutini
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If the world were an orange with 18 segments meeting at the top (the North Pole), roughly 8 of them would be in Russia, Canada would have 4, Denmark 2, and Norway, Sweden, and the U.S. just one apiece. Only a sliver of Alaska, on the Beaufort Sea, lies above the Arctic Circle.
Alex Shoumatoff
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When you have kids, you just love them. It's similar to when you're in love with someone. You just think they are so cool and want to be around them all the time, but what if she starts being embarrassed and only giving me charity visits? I want her to actually want to see me, so that's what I'm going for!
Jeremy Sisto
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For example, justice is considered to mean equality, It does mean equality- but equality for those who are equal, and not for all.
Aristotle
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The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
Virginia Woolf
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The Book of Air and Shadows' was born during a conference with an intellectual property lawyer on a particular afternoon in November of 2003.
Michael Gruber
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If we think about folk forms, they belong to disenfranchised people, people who have not been allowed access to the poetry of literature or the leisure time that comes with the pursuit of poetry. Instead, this is ceremony. This is a highly charged way to create a sacred space that isn't necessarily about God, but is about human experience at its most profound levels - whether that's love or grief, separation, or homeland. All are altered states.
Eliza Griswold
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Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe