Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.
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A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone, and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and trot about till sheer exhaustion forces him to sleep.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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The only morality I'm interested in is the morality between your ears, between each player's ears, because that's the interesting thing to me.
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I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.
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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.
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I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two - and there was Spotify.
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I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.
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Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.
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If you leave me waiting 'round for hours and then call on me to do something, I need to be able to do it straight away. That's my job, like your job is to do what you do.
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It wasn't about the money. I just wanted them to admit it was their fault.
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Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.
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He who trades pacing for gimmicky open-world freedom deserves neither.
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I spent my life making fashion an art form.
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We have to fight for our freedoms, also, economic and our national security freedoms.
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I'm one dude that writes his adlibs. I don't just go in there and say "Gimme a track." I say what I'ma say here [then] I put effects on my voice. Why not? I wrote it. Why not show the talent? Why be scared? That's why I hate certain fans who hate cause it's not like raw hip-hop, like boom bap.
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Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.
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No one has told me how much I'm worth, and I'm not trying to find out.
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It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.
