Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.
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Man has a primary property right to his person and his labor.
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Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.
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If you're sick, first you have to associate your sickness with a food. Then you have to report it to your doctor. Then the doctor reports it to some state authority. The state authority reports it to the federal authority. By the time all that happens, two weeks have gone by.
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You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job.
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In the end there is only Matisse.
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We just keep moving the cots a little closer together.
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Luck is when skill meets opportunity.
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I started getting seriously into music when I was a kid. 1978 was my big year. It just hit home. That was before real metal. There was Black Sabbath and that kind of stuff, but the real underground, hard stuff wasn't even around yet. It was cool to watch that happen and latch onto the next edge of things every time that progression happened.
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I got nothing against Barack Obama; I just might not like some of his policies and the people he surrounds himself with.
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Against the flying ball no valor avails.
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I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.
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Eventually I want to re-do this to make it a family home.
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The spirit of Lincoln still lives; that spirit born of the teachings of the Nazarene, who promised mercy to the merciful, who lifted the lowly, strengthened the weak, ate with publicans, and made the captives free. In the light of this divine example, the doctrines of demagogues shiver in their chaff.
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I love to listen to traditional country music. That's where I get a lot of inspiration.
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When I started running, the pain barrier was very familiar to me, and I had no problem pushing beyond the pain. When for your whole life, every single workout, you are programmed to push beyond belief, it's really hard to just turn that off and kind of just be a social competitor.
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Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
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Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the father of the family, some man against whom they had no personal feeling, without one thought of compunction or of compassion for his weeping wife or helpless children, and yet the tender or pathetic in music could move them to tears.
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The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.
