Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Music to me is spontaneous, writing is spontaneous and it's all based on not trying to do it. From beginning to end, whether it's writing a song, or playing guitar, or a particular chord sequence, or blowing a horn, it's based on improvisation and spontaneity.
Van Morrison
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Our Garrick's a salad; for in him we seeOil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree!
Oliver Goldsmith
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Democracy arose from men’s thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely in all respects.
Aristotle
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When the storms of life come, if they come to me personally, to my family or to the world, I want to be strong enough to stand and be a strength to somebody else, be shelter for somebody else.
Anne Graham Lotz
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I am not an early bird. I go to bed normally between midnight and 1 o'clock, so it is understandable that I cannot be an early bird. I wake up around 9 o'clock.
Dieter Rams
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I like people to have a bit of a laugh. Life is too short to not enjoy what you're doing.
Bradley Walsh
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Ya know, Hitler was this evil, evil man. But with the World Bank and Israel manipulating America, he might have been on to something.
Zach Braff
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I would never share my daughter's wardrobe. Every five years you have to go through your wardrobe and say, 'This is possible, this is not possible.' But you have to be happy with yourself.
Carine Roitfeld
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I've had a lot of different lives. I was adopted, I grew up in Nebraska, and then I went to Northwestern... Then I had this really extraordinary, different life than my parents.
Dan Chaon
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When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me.
Pablo Picasso
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If culture did not filter, it would be inane - as inane as the formless, boundless Internet is on its own. And if we all possessed the boundless knowledge of the Web, we would be idiots! Culture is an instrument for making a hierarchical system of intellectual labor.
Umberto Eco
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The present is a powerful deity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
