Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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When I was about nine years old, I announced to my mother that I was going to cook Thanksgiving dinner. And I went to the library and got this whole pile of books. I'd love to say it all turned out great. It didn't. But, sort of, from that point on, whenever there was serious cooking at home, I was the one who did it.
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We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. That's why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food.
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The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers. The economic basis of this contest was the power to tax, to float bonds, to award franchise: in short, to gain control over the financial resources of the newly organized States.
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The game is the ultimate significance to me because it is so important to a lot of people. It has left a mark on our culture to be voted as one of the best to ever play.
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I had such an amazing experience on 'The Pillowman' that it was hard to think what else is going to live up to that.
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In setting goals and executing a strategy, Wanda is sophisticated. We have good systems and departments. If targets are not reached, a yellow light goes off.
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When I think about somebody like Keira Knightley, whom I don't particularly know, I see somebody who is working hard, really trying to challenge herself and make smart choices in spite of people criticising her size and performances.
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I am a bit of a bad boy. I have tattoos and I mess around. That's part of my image, so it's cool.
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I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I just have to go right down to the common denominator, find the simplest way that you can look at an object or a problem, and not muck it up with all of the stuff that adults do and over-analyze.
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Governments that try to shoot for a surplus hardly ever reach it.
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I didn't have a childhood.
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Poems - crystallizations of the universal play of analogy, transparent objects which, as they reproduce the mechanism and the rotary motion of analogy, are waterspouts of new analogies.
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People call me Wayne Wonder and it also goes back to football because I could do mad skills with the ball and people would marvel and wonder how I could do it.
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I've never understood the 'things to do before you die' idea. If I was ill, I'd be in no mood to have a swim with a dolphin.
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Ivan said, If only we could eat violin music.
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Right now we are not on a plane list for the next couple of days so that gives us the opportunity to focus on the people who are here.
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A skyscraper is a machine that makes the land pay.
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I think men look best when they're dressed in something that makes them feel comfortable.
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The spirits that I summoned upI now can't rid myself of.
