Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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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 find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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I'm always drawing, so Draw Something is a cool game to play against your friends when you're bored and sat chilling out and relaxing.
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You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.
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To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.
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I left home when I was just 17, finished up high school, and went to work.
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Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.
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It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.
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My family were pretty big hippies.
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My typical morning involves some time on the treadmill, but obviously I skip that a lot. Mostly, I wake up, check my email, then get to work on the various interviews and questions and phone calls that come with being an author.
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The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
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First we become the best, then we'll become first.
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to live life as a writer is a very lucky thing.
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Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits.
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I mean, I would love to have the career Joan Baez is having in Europe right now, but God knows I don't begrudge her that career.
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I always have been a guy that's always smiling, always laughing.
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Plunge boldly into the thick of life!
