Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.
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Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
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I watched a lot of soap operas like 'General Hospital' and 'Days Of Our Lives.' When it came to movies, my parents were quite strict. They would watch 'Flash Dance' but wouldn't let us see the whole film because Jennifer Beals' character was a stripper. It was so funny when I finally saw the whole film. I thought she was a ballerina!
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I had 45 amateur fights, and I was able to win two national titles in those three years as an amateur.
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Wikipedia is kind of extreme, where a very, very small group of people contribute pretty much everything.
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I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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My hair is a wild, untamable beast! I like letting it grow; my bangs grow whatever way they want and I kind of follow their rule. So side bangs, poof bangs - it's kind of unpredictable.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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Wherever I go in the world, I'm treated like royalty.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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Golf is not easy.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces and tongues.
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I love painting so much that nothing else matters.
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A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
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One writes not by will but by surrender.
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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To love is not to look at one another: it is to look, together, in the same direction.
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Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.
