Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.
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Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they won't function at all.
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I've been sent lots of lovely gifts - everything from candy and peanut butter to hand-made quilts, pictures, and clothing. I was once sent a crate of avocados. Fortunately, I love them.
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I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
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I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.
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There's nothing I hate more than gritty, linty, mysterious pocket schmutz in the cap of my lip moisturizer - or, even worse, on the applicator itself. I shudder at the thought.
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Yeah I grew up on the Westside of Detroit.
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I am not saying one is better than the other. I enjoy both. But Hollywood is far more organised than Bollywood.
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For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.
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Societies evolve based on new understandings and new science and new appreciation of who we are.
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Are the new viewers gone yet?
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Malraux writes in a language in which there is no way to say 'perhaps' or 'I don't know,' so that after a while we grow accustomed to saying it for him.
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And entreating his exalted weight, Under the stars, saints he planted.
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Marlon Brando is not a gangster-actor, he's an actor. Axl Rose and them are not gangster rock-and-rollers, they're rock-and-rollers right. So I'm a rapper, this is what I do. I'm an artist.
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These palms are driving me crazy; the motifs are extremely difficult to seize, to put on canvas; it's so bushy everywhere, although delightful to the eye.. .I would like to do orange and lemon trees silhouetted against the blue sea, but cannot find them as I would like.
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The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.
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There is no more dangerous country in the world today than Pakistan.
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Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
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It is the illusion of all lovers to think themselves unique and their words immortal.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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Words express neither objects nor ourselves.
