Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
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I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.
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Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
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I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.
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The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.
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I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives.
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I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.
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If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.
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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.
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If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.
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The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful.
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You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.
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I really wasn't even aware that Batman and Superman had this kind of grudging friendship.
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You can't take yourself too seriously.
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This is a revolution of the mind, get your mind together and get away from drugs.
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Spread the sickness, infect the world.
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You may have holes in your shoes, but don't let the people out front know it. Shine the tops.
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The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you. All the thrills of religion and none of the cost. Is the Life-Force the greatest achievement of wishful thinking the world has yet seen?
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In a universe that defies description, all systems of belief can only be false.
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In art, practice always comes before theory.
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I studied psychology in school, and the best psychology is in literature. It's so much easier to understand a character than a theory. You can recognize yourself—or other people—in a different way.
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All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
