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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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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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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To one extent or another, then, you learn to constantly monitor your behavior, so that it conforms to the established criteria set up for sane or rational experience. You are social creatures, as the animals are. Despite many of your cherished, erroneous beliefs, your nations exist as the result of cooperation, not competition, as do all social groupings.
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Listening is the key to everything good in music.
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Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear upon passage of the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which prohibited desecration of the flag.
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I work very hard at relationships. I've done the thing of being home. I worked all day and came home and did all the stuff at home that a woman is supposed to do, the cooking and the entertaining. I'm a perfectionist, and, besides, I loved all those things.
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The greatest gift I've been given is being naive, because I don't know what I can't do. And when you don't know what you can't do, you think you can do everything.
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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.
