Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I burp, I fart. I'm a real woman.
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When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.
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Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.
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They're like a weird couple. If you were to personify the artichoke and the oyster, they would have a great date. They would totally get along.
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In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.
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I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I like. It's got to have some vocal quality and some semblance of melody.
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It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; had moments where I was writing lots. It was just a massive learning process for me.
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I remember when we did 'Shaun of the Dead,' and when we were trying to get it off the ground in 2001 before we actually made it, a lot of people just didn't want to know.
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At Juilliard, suddenly I was reading these great plays that could articulate the ways I was feeling in the Marine Corps, and that felt very therapeutic, by putting words to feelings, in a big way.
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How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.
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I trust work, directors - I don't live in fear. All good experiences have come from trusting the universe. There is no other way to live or love. Otherwise, you create your own prison.
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Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.
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In retrospect, we could see that the 1950s had been a reactionary period in America of Eisenhower blandness, of virulent anticommunism, of the 'Feminine Mystique.'
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I didn't realise how my life was changing. When I was 17, 18, 20, I didn't realise how big football was and everything around football. How many people live for football and love football. I was a professional, but I was a supporter.
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I always tend to think of all of my shows as possibly my last show. I'm like a junior Springsteen, without the underbite.
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And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for me and I was meeting vegetarians. I thought, let me try this vegetarian thing. I got really into that.
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Escapism or nostalgia, for me, is not about having a terrible life and trying to get away via imaginary ideas or something.
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Statistics show that many people watch our show from the bedroom. and people you ask into your bedroom have to be more interesting than those you ask into your living room. I kid you not!
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It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.
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As long as I'm blessed and/or cursed to be alive, it's hard to see a time when I won't be making music.
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I didn't like when people said that actresses have shelf life.
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When I did start writing books, I didn't realize it, but the girls that grew up watching the show became moms.
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We have found a direct correlation between grit and positive emotions, but the fact that I have no evidence that grit is bad for you doesn't mean it's not. It's always a possibility that in the future researchers will discover a downside to grit.
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Es irrt der Mensch, so lang er strebt.
