Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a... very average student in that high school. Then I joined the Navy, and while I was in the Navy, I was in a motorcycle accident and woke up deaf in a hospital.

  

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• Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

  

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• Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.

  

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• My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.

  

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• Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.

  

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• I love sportswear in my own weird way. Fashion is such a personal journey for me. I'm much more of a girl that's a T-shirt, legging, layering kind of thing, and outerwear.

  

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• I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.

  

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• Be real with yourself in whatever area of your life and your game that you need improvement on. Once you figure that out, you just have to go out and work on it. For me, it's footwork. I constantly work on it, and it's a never-ending process.

  

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• If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.

  

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• I don't remember anything from the Bills. It was rough there, but it is what it is. Now I'm here in the Super Bowl, just trying to enjoy that.

  

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• I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.

  

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• As far as the live shows go, we're not leapfrogging all the smaller venues. We would have bypassed these kind of shows and gone straight to the Arena shows, but we didn't want to.

  

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• We've all got a lot of catching up to do. I'm still learning how to act, for god's sake. When I see these old-timers on the Turner Classic Movies, I still get ideas, you know. That's where you really learn acting. If you really see some of these old boys working it and you say to yourself, "My God, if I could really do that that would be wonderful."

  

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• My greatest challenge is not what's happening at the moment, my greatest challenge was knocking Liverpool right off their fucking perch. And you can print that.

  

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• So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Work
  • Silent
  • Misunderstood