Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.
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My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.
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We don't have to look back at da Vinci's work and Albert Einstein's work and Mozart's work. We're actually living in the time period that David Lynch is creating his art. We're so lucky.
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I am endlessly inspired by both the tenderness that can exist between two people and the excitement of falling in love. I'm very fortunate that I've been able to explore that in novels, a television show, some early development film projects, and essays about my own life.
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Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.
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Time is a child playing with droughts. The lordship is to the child.
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My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.
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The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.
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I bow my head to the victims of terrorism. I am highly impressed of the courage of New York residents. The great city and the great American nation are to win!
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Dancers are the athletes of God.
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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening...
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I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.
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If your income on films or whatever you're producing using film drops below a certain level, then you don't have enough money to stay in business. People like to say that this is all just about making money, but if you don't make money, you don't make anything.
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If you're interested in a book that will steadily grow and sell for a very long time, I promise you I will give you that.
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Proof, being the highest level of reproduction activity, has an important interiorization aspect: as Yuri Manin stresses in his book Provable and Unprovable, a proof becomes such only after it is accepted (as the result of a highly rigorous process) ... Manin describes the act of acceptance as a social act; however, the importance of its personal, psychological component can hardly be overestimated.
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Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories.
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One of my key mental fitness tips is to make sure you are aware of your target and develop a strategy - a routine that you can depend on while in the race. This is a crucial part of mental fitness and preparation.
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I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.
