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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The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
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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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I once had an Early Girl tomato at my friend Jay's house, and I thought that was the best thing I'd ever had. But then I visited friends in Senegal, and I ate sea urchin pulled fresh out of the sea. It tasted like the ocean.
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For me, it's not so much about picking the right position; it's about the team.
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I think now I'm more realistic, but I'm still very much an idealist.
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I left Iran back in 1985. I lived in Turkey for a while, then I went to Germany. I joined a theater company there, and we toured the country.
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A likable character isn't one who does nothing wrong.
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Es irrt der Mensch, so lang er strebt.
