Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
With little wit and ease to suit them, They whirl in narrow circling trails, Like kittens playing with their tails.
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I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or considered rap. I don't mind being called a folk singer. But it seems a bit limiting. I want to be able to write whatever kind of song I want.
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It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks.
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Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
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The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.
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You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin, but in a provincial town in south Germany, Jewish people didn't exist.
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On my own, I have very bad posture; I'm clunky.
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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
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I'm not super-patriotic, but the U.S. is where I live, and it's the passport that I carry.
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You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
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Somehow, I realized I could write books about black characters who reflected my own experiences or otherworldly experiences - not just stories of history, poverty and oppression.
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Rooting for the offense is the safe way to go. You win either way.
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The confounding Political Economy with the Sciences and Arts to which it is subservient, has been one of the principal obstacles to its improvement.
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I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love story between a father and his son, and that son and his daughter.
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I'm always writing something. There's always some structure sitting around someplace. There's always things on the computer, things scratched on score paper, legal tablets full of lyrics. It's never not buzzing around me all the time. I'm always doing it.
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When Peyton went into the game and remained the starter, it was OK with me because our team was winning games. We won a championship.
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Think continally about what you want, not about the things you fear.
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Develop a benovolent world view;look for the good in the people and circumstances around you.
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People think for Shakespeare you have to have a big English accent, but it's not true. He designed it so it can be performed in any accent in any time period.
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I'm not really fond of the trails left in the sky and a lot of chemicals that are being pumped through factories and even in the clothes we wear.
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We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.
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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
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Free will appears unfettered, deliberate; it is boundlessly free, wandering, the spirit. But fate is a necessity; unless we believe that world history is a dream-error, the unspeakable sorrows of mankind fantasies, and that we ourselves are but the toys of our fantasies. Fate is the boundless force of opposition against free will. Free will without fate is just as unthinkable as spirit without reality, good without evil. Only antithesis creates the quality.
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With little wit and ease to suit them, They whirl in narrow circling trails, Like kittens playing with their tails.
