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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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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I am actually a bit chubby, and I eat everything. I eat in a way - if my parents fed me the way I choose to eat as an adult, they would've lost custody.
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When I wrote my first book, 'Koolaids,' I felt rejected and not wanted.
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My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel, who was my first real acting teacher. Joan was also good friends with my friend Susie Landau Finch, who had first encouraged me to consider acting, so that's how I began studying.
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I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
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Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by. Praise judiciously bestowed is money invested.
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I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.
