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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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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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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Like most Russians, I am very superstitious, and if I don't get married, I don't get divorced.
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I think it's good to explore it. I don't feel bad about that... I mean, I think everyone has a sense of - has a dark side, has a - carries some sort of pain with them. And I find it fun to crack it open and go there.
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I've made my music so that it could be about anything and everybody - whether it's a guy, a female or a goat - and everybody can relate to that.
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Some dream in color. We dream in scale.
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In today's world, social media, people get judged so much by the last thing that happened, I almost feel, in a way, young people get to see that not only is it OK to fail - that's the way you get to championship success, whether it's sports or business or life.
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I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
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I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.
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Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.
