Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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I'm an emotional actor. When I'm doing a scene, I really believe it. I live the part as long as I'm in the scene.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
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It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.
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We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
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I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to mess around and touch somebody's heart, and they'll relate to you and what you're singing about.
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Once I dive in, I dive in all the way.
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A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.
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The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter.
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Once your dream is fulfilled you face another one.
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Call it the Tiger Mom effect: In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option.
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In my opinion, the Hezbollah has going - they are going to discover sooner or later than in their top priority should preserve Lebanon.
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I was tall and skinny, and at 15, I was approached to model. I figured that models got to travel, and it became my ticket to travel so much so that if an agency could not fly me to another country, I would fly on my cost so that I could see that country and also make some money.
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I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.
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sub specie aeternitatis
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We may avoid much disappointment and bitterness of soul by learning to understand how little necessary to our joy and peace are the things the multitude most desire and seek.
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Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.
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The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
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The way that I work is very specific, very thorough, and the process has to be totally clear.
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Only the soul that loves is happy.
