Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.
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I've always wanted to make a record.
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At the time I was writing the second album, I was sitting home in my underwear all day every day; I didn't have all that much to write about except for my own life and my family.
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I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.
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Everything that I hate about myself goes away when I was onstage.
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I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids' TV show, he had a nightclub show in L.A., and I had gotten a VHS copy of it. It was a kids' show, but onstage in a bar, so it's sort of poking fun at the kids' show. And I was obsessed with that, and then 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure.'
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I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.
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We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our history the history becomes twisted and we get written out. We get our noses blown off.
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My father's politics were old-fashioned in the sense that he used to say, all the time, "You've got to fight the system!" But my spiritual beliefs have led me to believe that the fight is the problem.
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Slade was never pretentious. It was just music to them. Pop, rock, soul....it was all the same to Slade. They wrote great songs. And, besides, I'd like to raid their wardrobe.
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Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.
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One should always be happy, irrespective of what you achieve in a match or in life. That's how I live my life.
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To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.
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Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
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Yes, you want to do studio movies, but I also want to grow as an actor, and an actress like me is not going to get roles where you grow and evolve in a studio film. It's just not gonna happen.
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The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.
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I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.
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The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
