Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others.
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Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail.
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Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
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There's this idea that it's all natural, but everything's been staged to look natural. It is also an invention. It's just that my inventions are different. I often get asked about my artifice, but isn't fashion based on the idea that we can create a fantasy?
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My favorite tattoo right now is the one on my lower stomach that reads "Almost Famous" because as my career grows I'm still humbled every morning when I look at that tattoo, and I'll always remember how much it sucked to ALMOST be famous.
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God's forgiving grace is incomplete until he gives me - and I accept - a new kingdom-building dream and opportunity.
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I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.
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Riches for the most part are hurtful to them that possess them.
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Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought.
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This is an exhortation for a country that is on the verge of civil war...
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I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it?
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Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.
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I have no recipe for how to combine things. But you must be sincere. And if you are, strangely, it will succeed.
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When you hear bacon cooking....that sizzling sound isn't the fat cooking....that's applause.
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To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are always living in expectation of better things, at the same time we often repent and long to have the past back again.
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It was a place to bless God in and cease from vain words.
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A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others.
