Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.
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The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.
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You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve... But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.
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I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.
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I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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There are so many songs in me that haven't been born yet. So I can't call myself a genius, but I never turn away a compliment, and I feel like I'm on my way to that mountain.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.
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As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I'm not going to give it the big 'I am' now that I'm a New York Times bestseller.
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It's actually quite criminal how 'The Wire' was systematically ignored.
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I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.
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Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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The coast's a jungle of Moors, Turks, Jews, renegades from all over Europe, sitting in palaces built from the sale of Christian slaves. There are twenty thousand men, women and children in the bagnios of Algiers alone. I am not going to make it twenty thousand and one because your mother didn't allow you to keep rabbits, or whatever is at the root of your unshakable fixation." "I had weasels instead," said Philippa shortly. "Good God," said Lymond, looking at her. "That explains a lot.
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We believe in fair exchange rates and Japan doesn't practice that. They have massive U.S. dollar reserves, and they use them to intervene regularly.
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The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
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Our neighborhood - this solar system, the cosmos, actually - is so much more vast and amazing than the paltry headlines, insanity, and politics crammed at us daily as so-called news. The beauty of the hood and discoveries that await us are deserving of our attention and mandatory to our survival as a species.
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Comedy comes easily to me, and so for me, comedy is suspect.
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The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.
