Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
The thinking person has the strange characteristic to like to create a fantasy in the place of the unsolved problem, a fantasy that stays with the person even when the problem has been solved and truth made its appearance.
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I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.
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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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I think, like any artist, those baby songs are not the best things you've ever written, but they count because they're you're first attempts at creating art and expressing yourself.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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Success is the sweetest revenge.
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I want to make sure that that future that we're creating is one that is the best it can be for people around the world, and also one that includes the full range of our talent and our skills - and, you know, gender and ethnicity, geography - to solving the world's problems.
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I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.
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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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Mick Jagger has produced some great films and brought us stories about the music industry that have changed the way we think about how music is made. I never thought I would actually call him my boss, let alone meet Mick Jagger or have any reason to say my name in the same sentence as his.
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In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way.
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Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time.
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God has given us all wonderful unique gifts and talents to use to glorify and celebrate Him.
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I knew what I wanted to do in sport from the age of nine.
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Those who want to cut Social Security are prepared to take hostages, manufacture crises, and use scare tactics to undermine the retirement security of Americans.
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Naked dudes are inherently funny.
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Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.
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I'd read at a much higher-than-average grade level since, well, grade school.
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There is a strong demand for Michael Jackson's music and merchandise, and that will only increase as more material surfaces in the years following his death.
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After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes.
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I don't think there's a city that has done more and sustained a higher level of security and protection than New York City.
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The thinking person has the strange characteristic to like to create a fantasy in the place of the unsolved problem, a fantasy that stays with the person even when the problem has been solved and truth made its appearance.
