Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
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Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.
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I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
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The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That's a common thread through humanity on any street you go to.
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I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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I watch a lot of television. I always have.
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Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
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As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.
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You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.
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I love Massachusetts for a number of reasons. I once loved a magical girl who lived in a magnificently converted barn, a half-hour or so from Boston. I love your winters. I love the snow.
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For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.
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There are still so many movies made starring 50 men and one woman! A white male actor should never be allowed to complain about anything. Shut up and sit in the corner. I mean, seriously!
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When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at once, it can seem abstract. I don't need to see great art to get stirred up. Music does that for me more easily.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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I was lucky. My parents and teachers provided me with a wonderful and secure childhood where I always knew I was loved, valued, and listened to.
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Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
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Among the old Norse, it was the custom for certain warriors to dress in the skins of the beasts they had slain, and thus to give themselves an air of ferocity, calculated to strike terror into the hearts of their foes.
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Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
