Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Republicans traditionally say, 'oh, we'll cut domestic spending, but we won't touch the military.' The liberals - the ones who are good - will say, 'oh, we'll cut the military, but we won't cut domestic spending.'
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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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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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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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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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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I want to avoid injuries by running only road.
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I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.
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A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.
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I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.
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The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
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Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
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Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down.
