Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.
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I never want to sound preachy about youth and feminism, but I feel like there aren't enough young people coming out about their concerns and opinions.
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I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.
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I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.
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This is how I started: My mom was crazy for antique shops and junk shops, and my sister and I would play this game where, if we were driving with my parents and saw a junk shop or an antique shop, we'd scream at the top of our lungs. My poor father would have heart failure and screech to a halt, and we'd leap out and go and explore.
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From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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You need to train your brain to be positive.
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We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.
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If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.
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I do believe that all of the world needs reform. The reform must take place everywhere.
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I'm not a sex symbol. How could I be with these skinny bowlegs?
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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Joining the Bipartisan Policy Center is a natural extension of my efforts to achieve results throughout my tenure in Congress, and it provides an ideal means for developing strategies that can garner the broad support necessary to achieve real solutions to the challenges confronting our nation.
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I think I was perceived in one fashion. A video is based on a song. I think you can get glimpses of people's presence within that. There's some people you enjoy watching more than others.
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Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.
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It's a controversial segment, 'Watters World.' There's controversy around it.
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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
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A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really good strong music set.
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Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.
