Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.
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Personal shoppers in big department stores are seriously under-used.
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It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.
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I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
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I found that if I don't paint for around a week, I get practically suicidal. It took a long time to figure out why I had these mood swings, and I finally figured out it's because I haven't painted.
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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.
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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
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The amygdala is indeed crucial for monitoring our environment and deciding what's worth getting worked up over. Once the amygdala determines this, however, it merely trips another circuit to actually produce the panic.
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What humanity needs today is not merely philosophy or theology, but a message or reassurance.
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
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My father and brothers were in the military.
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Nobody is like Tanuja Trivedi in this whole world.
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If we deliver on those promises, we'll have done our job, and we did it with PSOne, and we certainly did it with PS2, and we are about to do it very rapidly with PSP. This is a whole new business for us, in terms of the handheld market, and we're going about it the right way.
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I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.
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When I start something, I have to finish it, and I'm a super perfectionist, too.
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The entire drug phenomenon of the 1960s happened without the concept of shamanism to help it along.
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My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.
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Once a decision is made to be tasteful and risk-free, all spark, soul, variety, sleaze, spontaneity and fun go right out the window
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Wer immer strebend sich bemüht,Den können wir erlösen.
