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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The best you can hope for in a relationship is to find someone whose flaws are the sort you don’t mind. It is futile to look for someone who has no flaws, or someone who is capable of significant change; that sort of person exists only in our imaginations.
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Thank God for the joys of family life. I have often said there can be no genuine happiness separate and apart from a good home. The sweetest influences and associations of life are there.
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Thoughts of lack manifest as limitation. Thoughts of abundance manifest as success and happiness. Failure and success are but two ends of the same stick.
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It comes down to competitiveness. I hate to lose. We want people in our organization that hate to lose - that want to compete every single day, so you continue to strive to win.
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A teacher's hardest lesson is to limit his explanation to the minimum.
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I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.
