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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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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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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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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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'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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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
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I always had career goals. And I figured out a path I wanted to take to accomplish those goals. If that meant calling the best modeling agency in the world, that's what it meant.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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Once you reach a certain age, you're either slowly dying or slowly being reborn. I want to choose the latter.
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I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.
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The rates of taxation climb and the levels of capital decline, until the only remaining wealth beyond the reach of the regime is the very protein of human flesh, and that too is finally taxed, bound, and gagged, and brought to the colossal temple of the state - a final sacrifice of carnal revenue to feed the declining elite.
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Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.
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Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be.
