Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal.
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I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
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For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.
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Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt.
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I think in a lot of situations I had got songs stolen from me, or treated badly.
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In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.
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I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.
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He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest.
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I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal.
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'Come out' is so funny to me because I've never been in.
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If I'm extremely bored and I don't have a book with me and I'm being an obnoxious teenager, I'll read 'BuzzFeed' on my phone. But even that just leaves me feeling icky because I think for some reason my comfort zone is to just not really be in the loop about stuff like awards shows or things like that.
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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
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The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out.
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Much of social media can be seen as the 'News of me.' It's not so much a platform for connecting and sharing as it is a platform for advertising the idea of yourself you want to portray to others: the image of yourself you want to project.
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The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.
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A soldier's first duty is to obey, otherwise you might as well do away with soldiering.
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No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love
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No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.
