Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies.
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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You grow up and change your look. I feel different from how I did in my Playboy days. Now I think I'm in charge of toning down my look or not.
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I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.
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I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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Issues to do with disability, mental health and not being neurotypical often affect many genuine teenagers but are rarely reflected in the fiction they read.
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It's not my goal to be a famous actor.
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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
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I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.
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Beijing was a huge slap in the face, and it forced me to look at myself. I have to realise that this is my life.
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A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.
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We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.
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God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.
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I'm accused of, and perhaps rightly so, of not being mean enough. I've been taken to task in many a book review; a good satirist has to, you know, has to kill.
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I've had all that you could ask for. The fat lady has sung, and there's a standing ovation.
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For me, everything is cool.
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We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies.
