Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be.
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I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night. I find myself talking to myself sometimes.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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I suffered from 'No one will ever fancy me!' syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.
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I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it.
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When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the interest they'd have in trying to get a photo with an artist or get a ticket stub signed. I guess, to me, that's the ultimate thing – to know that what you've done is important enough to other people that they want to take a picture with you.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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It’s like my greatest accomplishment in life so far, and I haven’t committed myself to anything for as long as I’ve committed myself to music, to the band and you know we’ve been through so many trials and tribulations and yet that didn’t break it, you know?
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I kind of take Hilary as a role model because she started out at about the same age, she hadn't done much before starting her series, and I haven't either.
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No sudden inspiration can replace the long years of arduous labor necessary to train the eye to observe, the hand to reproduce.
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Human nature is a work in progress.
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Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be.
