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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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• I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.

  

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• All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.

  

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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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• I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.

  

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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 paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

  

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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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• Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.

  

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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.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Problem
  • Fantasy
  • Thinking Person