Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is to not have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Sicily

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• My advice to anyone would be to focus on your current job and be the best at it. The rest will take care of itself.

  

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• I try to write relevant songs about life and whatever I'm going through and whatever people are going through.

  

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• We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.

  

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• To fund major cultural efforts, we must not rely alone on government and foundation patronage; if the farmer can spend for beer, he can pay for good entertainment which he can understand, which he can identify with and which will fortify his spirit.

  

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• Music companies and buyers are not too encouraging towards independent musicians. Everyone wants to play safe and go with established names, but unless one breaks this routine, no new talent will come and survive.

  

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• The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you don't know much about them as people, so you actually have to make them up.

  

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• I want to win medals for myself.

  

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  • Want
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• Start-up should focus on innovation not on building on infrastructure. Thanks to Google cloud service they can.

  

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• Few there were who could change his courses by counsel. None by force.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
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• The challenge of a revival is how to bring something fresh. The reward is the opportunity to add different flourishes. You're dealing with different actors, designers and a different time.

  

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• I was a lot younger - when I wrote Water Lilies. I was like 26. It felt so natural to write about adolescence.

  

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• I am not going to rape you, Mrs. Blackburn," he said, toweling off his face, as if accusations of rape were a daily and tiresome occurence.

  

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• Anorexia was there for me before I got into modeling, but because of the arena and the demands, the disease really got out of control for me. It's like being an alcoholic and going and being a bartender.

  

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• They call me crazy. I call myself obsessed

  

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• Republicans traditionally say, 'oh, we'll cut domestic spending, but we won't touch the military.' The liberals - the ones who are good - will say, 'oh, we'll cut the military, but we won't cut domestic spending.'

  

  Rand Paul
  • Good
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• I'll always be tough on myself.

  

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• I remember one particular moment (I don't actually know how old I was, but I guess around 7 or something like that) when I remember actually weeping. I was by myself in a room in the house, and I was just crying because I realized how much Jesus loved me.

  

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• Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.

  

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• If it's something I feel I can do alright, I like being in those, and some that I think Rob Schneider and David Spade would be funnier at than me, I tell them to do it. I don't have any clue how we decide. There's this thing, this "Click", actually, one of my friends called me up, my partner told me about this idea that Steve Koren had. Steve Koren, by the way, the guy who wrote it with Mark O'Keefe, Steve Koren I've known since I was 22. He was a page at Saturday Night Live.

  

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• It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought to a pitch of perfection which remains unknown to modern chemistry, but which is indisputably proved by history. Italy, the cradle of modern science, was at that time, the inventor and mistress of these secrets, many of which are lost.

  

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• To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is to not have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Italy
  • Clue
  • Sicily