Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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I love my wife, I love my kids.
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I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.
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I believe that it's better to have a conviction, believe strongly in something, and then the convictions create a style that reflects your mentality.
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With movies, you can do a lot more roles a lot faster. My favorite thing about acting is taking on new characters. It's fun switching it up at times. No matter what, I feel so honored and blessed to be 16 and already living my dream. It's really special.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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I thought of myself as an outsider in a lot of ways as I was growing up. Not in a bad way; more as an observer. I often find myself thinking as an observer of science fiction rather than as a participant.
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It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.
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I'm sure that people who elected me, some of them thought I was gay, some of them thought I wasn't gay, and most of them didn't care.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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To the youth who have taken up guns, I urge them to return to their parents and shun violence.
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As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over.
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I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think, in essence, what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.
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The kind of system Kickstarter uses has been used for hundreds of years. Unlike Medici-style patronage, where the richest people in town give large amounts of money, Kickstarter's system relies on the general public for funding projects, and rewards those backers.
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We should not have a government program that determines if you're going to pull the plug on grandma.
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It's so silly. All you do is get the heck out of your body when you die. My gosh, everybody's done it thousands of times. Just because they don't remember, it doesn't mean they haven't done it.
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I have friends who have children with various disabilities, and I was able to talk to them about just sort of the struggle and the extra effort that has to be put into very commonplace things.
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Hospitality is central to the restaurant business, yet it's a hard idea to define precisely. Mostly, it involves being nice to people and making them feel welcome. You notice it when it's there, and you particularly notice it when it isn't. A single significant lapse in this area can be your dominant impression of an entire meal.
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
