Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.
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I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.
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There's something called CEQA in California - NEPA at the federal level. There's indigenous lands and autonomies relating to governance on those lands. There are all kinds of obstructions as it relates to just getting zoning approval and getting building permits.
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work.
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I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the exposure they deserve, especially when they travel so far to play the smallest gig they've ever played in their lives.
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The United Kingdom has traditionally been a very small market, and even though you had such a creative group of designers, they represented a risk to department stores.
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When I happened to get into school, I felt like I could approach it as aggressively as things in the military.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs.
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All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
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The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.
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I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of sudden a thought occurred to me: If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight. I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.
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'The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...'
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The first object of my endeavours was the means to become perfect and happy.
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We break our promises to one another. We break our promises to God. But God never breaks His promises to us.
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You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.
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Put away your gods and come and worship ours, or we will kill you and your gods!
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave.
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I have my dad's shape. No booty.
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For years, I never knowingly went on a holiday. When I travelled, it was for work. Now I am a huge advocate, particularly to places which have amazing wildlife, such as Antarctica, India and Patagonia.
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You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.
