Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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• When the gods know that a god hath fallen, With this kindly feeling They do encourage him-- Be thou a god again and again.

  

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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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• I use products from my dermatologist but the best things you can do for your skin, are not smoke always use sunscreen and drink a lot of water.

  

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• So the Great Santini was how he liked being referred to by his children. He would line up his seven children, and there was this ritual we'd go through. And he would say, who's the greatest of them all? And we - the seven - would say, you are, oh, Great Santini. And he would say, who knows all, hears all and sees all? You do, oh, Great Santini. So this was the ridiculous way I was raised.

  

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• All tamed things are made a bit ridiculous in the process, you know.

  

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• The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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