Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
The new vulcanism is really a daring attempt to connect the present, incomprehensible world to a past, unknown one.
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
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I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.
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Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
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I trained as a dancer when I was much younger, for a large amount of time, like 6 or 7 years. Not to be a ballet dancer, actually, but I thought it was a complement for an actor. I thought that actors should know how to move, should know how to juggle, should know how to do acrobatics.
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I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.
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I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred.
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Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.
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Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers.
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Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.
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Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
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He is not someone who went off to play in Europe and only a few Americans follow. He has the potential to be on magazine covers and more newspaper coverage.
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Having 'The Expats' not be 'wholesale-y' rejected by the world made it possible for me to write the second book and have a publisher buy it before it was entirely written. And it made it easier for me and my publisher to get 'The Accident' out into the world without trying to convince people to pay attention to it the way you do for a first novel.
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Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products - iPod, iPhone, iPad - that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world.
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I will spend anything on the best sheets in the world because I am going to be in them every night. I like them white and crazy soft.
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Traditionally, I have no right to talk about race. I'm white; I didn't grow up in an all-black neighborhood. But the license I see for myself is I'm a member of the world.
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The new vulcanism is really a daring attempt to connect the present, incomprehensible world to a past, unknown one.
