Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.
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We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.
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The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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Whether you're making a million dollar film or a $100 million film there is never enough money, there's never enough time.
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My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.
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When I became prime minister last September, I promised the Japanese people that I would not tolerate the politics of indecision. A propensity to delay difficult and weighty decisions has been hurting our country. It is detrimental to our economy, society and future, and it cannot be allowed to continue.
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Central banks need to be able to buy bonds if there are short-term malfunctions of the markets. But buying bonds without differentiation and without limits would be very problematic.
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I always loved to gamble. I never got close to a horse. Fate dealt me a terrible blow when it gave me a good horse the first time out. I thought how easy this is. Now I love being around them.
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In a comedy, after the day is done, you can figure out ways of how to make it even funnier for the next day. In dramas, it's very different - the mindset that you're in.
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Everybody's wonderin' what and where they all came from.Everybody's worryin' 'bout where they're gonna goWhen the whole thing's done.But no one knows for certainAnd so it's all the same to me.I think I'll just let the mystery be.
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Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions.
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After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.
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A Jewish beggar is not impossible, perhaps; such a thing may exist, but there are few men that can say they have seen that spectacle.
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People should be travelling to Mars and doing it in our lifetime.
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It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer.
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Thirst for victory leads to defeat; not tiring of defeat leads to victory.
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Sometimes when I'm flying over the Alps I think, 'that's like all the cocaine I sniffed.
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Very rarely is there actually a functional reason for a fashion rule
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If I don't already know a song's chord progression, I'll stop writing and try to figure it out. I can occasionally listen to unstructured, amelodic ambient music, but I prefer no music. I don't need silence - I can write just about anywhere - but music is a major distraction.
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It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.
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Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.
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The coward only threatens when he is safe.
