Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Everything factual is, in a sense, theory. The blue of the sky exhibits the basic laws of chromatics. There is no sense in looking for something behind phenomena: they are theory.
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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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You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.
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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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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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You can't take yourself too seriously.
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Spread the sickness, infect the world.
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When you make the schedule, you're not planning on playing deep into every single week, or at least I haven't in the past. I'm not physically or mentally ready to pick up my bags and go to Monte Carlo. I definitely have to look at what's best for my chances at (at the French Open).
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I've also learned that you can't be all things to all people. Whatever it is that you're successful at, that has to be the No. 1 goal.
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Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew.
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Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.
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A pessimist looks at his glass and says it is half empty; an optimist looks at it and says it is half full.
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When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.
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My main interests this year were directed towards string theory of quark confinement. The problem is to find the string Lagrangian for the Faraday's `lines of force',which would reproduce perturbative corrections from the Yang-Mills theory to the Coulomb law at small distances and would give permanent confinement of quarks at large distances.
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Everything factual is, in a sense, theory. The blue of the sky exhibits the basic laws of chromatics. There is no sense in looking for something behind phenomena: they are theory.
