Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.
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I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.
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'Paranormal Activity' was a unique project in that I made it basically on my own, with a little help, and I had no exposure to the filmmaking world when I made it.
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When I first came in the business, I had a couple of close calls on planes going to London for shows. There was one time where the plane had to fly around until a storm ended, and then we started having a question about fuel, so we had to go through the storm. It was the worst thing that ever happened in my life. That really messed me up.
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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 do have thighs and a butt. I have cellulite.
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I'm pretty much in love with 'Adult Swim.'
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Now, the entire world community recognizes Georgia. We are members of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. Everything is being prepared so that we will soon enter the European Union.
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Nothing surprises me on 'Happy Endings,' because the show - I think one of the awesome things about the show is that it's so open to doing anything. We could do a genre episode. We have the green light to do whatever we want. Mostly because no one's watching.
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The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
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We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.
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In the midst of events there is no perspective.
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If people like something you've done - or don't like it - this shouldn't determine what you write or how you write it. Those are two separate things entirely: your work and the world's response to it.
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
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I have many influences and poets whose work I love. My personal canon includes Blake, Keats, Dickinson, Baudelaire, Stevens, Duncan and Barbara Guest - and many living poets as well.
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That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.
