Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Listen, I'm a sweet guy. I'm just intense at work. I have nothing but the end result in mind. My entire career has been like that.
Maksim Chmerkovskiy
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I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'
Malin Akerman
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To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
Fernando Pessoa
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There’s people all over these parts, and maybe beyond, who think, as you said, that nobody can be wise alone. So these people try to hold to each other.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Did Romeo and Juliet have a … 'relationship'? The term 'relationship' … betokens a chaste egalitarianism leveling different ranks and degrees of attachment.
Allan Bloom
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After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.
Arthur Miller
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I started playing guitar when I was eight. Well, I started piano and really liked it but never practiced, but it taught me how to read music, and then my mom signed me up for guitar lessons, and I connected to that way more.
Kerris Dorsey
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Everything I write is based on something I've personally experienced, or things that my friends have experienced that I just find horribly entertaining.
Kesha
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By junior high, I was a horrible student. But during my sophomore year of high school, I did have a fabulous English teacher, and I would go to school just for her class and then skip out afterwards. That's actually when I started writing, although I didn't think of it then as something I might someday do.
Andrea Barrett
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I could have been a superstar in America - I was certainly taken out there. But I said, 'No way, Jose, I'm not staying here in this madhouse.'
Charlotte Rampling
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In high school, my prom date fooled around with another guy - on prom night!
Matthew Perry
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Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that human beings need.
Tyne Daly
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It was entirely from worldly vanity that you destined him for the Church: with a family of three sons and four daughters, you were not warranted in devoting money to an expensive education which has succeeded in nothing but in giving him extravagant idle habits. You are now reaping the consequences.’
George Eliot
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I always try to be nice. I never want to be that person that anyone perceives as being rude or disrespectful, 'cause that's not me at all.
Khalid
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I don't know what the country's coming to. Everyone trying to be better than their betters--mink coats and no manners. No wonder Germany's arming.
Arthur Wimperis
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What were once felt to be defects-isolation, institutional simplicity, primitiveness of manners, multiplicity of religions, weaknesses in the authority of the state-could now be seen as virtues, not only by Americans themselves but by enlightened spokesmen of reform, renewal and hope wherever they may be-in London coffeehouses, in Parisian salons, in the courts of German princes.
Bernard Bailyn
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A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
