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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Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.
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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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I've got to literally write my own ticket.
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I had this mentality that I had to go out to everyone's show so everyone at the end of the week would come to mine - that I had to go out and rub elbows, find exposure. A small part of that is true. But if something is good, people will notice when you put it out.
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense,But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Whether you're doing Shakespeare or Disney, good work is good work.
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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.
