Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.
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I don't think in words; I think in pictures, in images.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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Every concert I've finished with the knowledge I've played a fistful of wrong notes.
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I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.
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Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
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I'm not a Trump fan, to put it mildly, but I think there's a power to simplicity. When Trump was running, people knew exactly what he stood for and what he was going to do as President.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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Death ends a life, not a relationship.
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Pay attention to science and not myths: We think liars won't look you in the eyes, but it turns out an honest person will only look you in the eyes about 60 percent of the time.
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Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.
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Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.
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If you could wean yourself off of oil and not be dependent on the Middle East, obviously it's better.
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Too often, campaigns are all flash and no substance.
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I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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I originally wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. Then I had this huge fear of black holes because my brother learned a bunch of stuff about it, and he's like, 'Oh, yeah, if you go into one you're never coming back.'
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Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
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On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.
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I never feel particularly comfortable holding a gun, but when you're playing somebody who lived in the frontier southwest, guns are a part of their life. Anyone who lives on land has a gun.
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Each country has its own way of communicating a narrative and, through that, expressing family experiences in emotional stories.
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The best way to describe my work is comedy in a very, very real way. I'm not scared to look silly on camera. I take everyday situations we all go through and put a very real twist on it - things people can relate to.
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The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.
