Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.
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Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.
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I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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I watch a lot of television. I always have.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.
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You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.
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For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.
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The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
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We need to understand what innovation will be built on top of our networks.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.
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When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
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Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.
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It's nice that there are movies and songs about romance - it's what motivates us as human beings. I'm all for being brainwashed by rom-coms.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.
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I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting.
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Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
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Don't Cry Daddy is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word.
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No one has success, until he has the abounding life. This is made up of the many-fold qualities of energy, enthusiasm, and gladness.
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Most problems are best solved privately, not through government. There's a problem of discourtesy in the world, which is best handled through social norms, which are indispensable. But you wouldn't want the government to be mandating courtesy.
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Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.
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The worst of this sorry bunch of semi-educated losers are those who seem to glory in being irritated by nouns becoming verbs. How dense and deaf to language development do you have to be? If you don’t like nouns becoming verbs, then for heaven’s sake avoid Shakespeare who made a doing-word out of a thing-word every chance he got. He TABLED the motion and CHAIRED the meeting in which nouns were made verbs
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I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.
