Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.
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I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.
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I am just so thankful that my mom was a fantastic mom. She wasn't a stage mother; she didn't push me. She was happy if I was happy. We are so different. I was very shy; my mom did all the talking. She was my strength. She never expected that I would be this ballerina.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.
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Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.
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He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family.
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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
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There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.
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If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.
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I've got about 5 million followers on Twitter, and if I tweet anything, there will be faux outrage.
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You learn the hard way. That's the thing with social media. Nobody knows what they're doing.
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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive factor; it is people, not things that are decisive. The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. People necessarily wield military and economic power.
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Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make bored.
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I hate the day, because it lendeth light To see all things, but not my love to see.
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Well, before you are always self-you’re always self-centered. Everything is for you. Your self is God. And we make lousy gods. Humans make lousy gods, I think. We need to let God be God and us be what we are. I think that’s what changes: the focus on who you’re serving. You’re not serving you. You’re serving Christ.
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It's good to be sent back to the underground. There's always a good side to bad things and the good side to this is that at least everyone has to go back down.
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I always loved singing because I grew up in a very musical family. My mom wasn't able to do music professionally because her parents wanted her to get a 'real job,' but she played guitar.
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I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a chosen few.
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In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.
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Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck.
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Ah, you loved me as a loser, but now you're worried that I just might win You know the way to stop me, but you don't have the discipline How many nights I prayed for this, to let my work begin First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.
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I was an athlete growing up and I miss that. I miss hanging out with dudes and making raunchy jokes and telling stories, trading details, you know? There's something I really miss about that.
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Life can only be understood backwards but you have to live it forward. You can only do that by stepping into uncertainty and by trying, within this uncertainty, to create your own islands of security....The new security will be a belief that ...if this doesn't work out you could do something else. You are your own security.
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We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.
