Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing.
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One of the things the novel can do is address big questions in ways that are accessible to people. It's not that I want to teach people, but these are the things that interest me, and this is my medium for exploring ideas, and I think the potential of novels to do that is massive.
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I try to not read about myself. I think it's easier to have it out of sight and out of mind.
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I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out.
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In the 21st Century, the anti-traditional marriage community is in league with the anti-life community, and together with the NAACP and other sympathizers, they are seeking a world where homosexual marriage and abortion will supposedly set the captives free.
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An educated child earns more later in life, knows how to keep their own children from dying, produces more food, is less likely to get AIDS, and in the case of boys, is less likely to engage in armed civil conflict.
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I had no idea what I was going to do when they threw me out of school.
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a writer doesn't only need the time when he's actually writing - he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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Not every day can be an easy one, nor every day fully happy; but even a day of tough going and difficulty can be a good day.
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Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.
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The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.
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Before I go on stage, I knock three times. Three is my lucky number; I once went into an audition and was number 333 and got the best part ever.
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I don't want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most.
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You're re-accessing your natural energy, your natural information, your knowledge of yourself, of your sacred self.
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No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.
