Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Don't feel guilty if you don't immediately love your stepchildren as you do your own, or as much as you think you should. Everyoneneeds time to adjust to the new family, adults included. There is no such thing as an "instant parent." Actually, no concrete object lies outside of the poetic sphere as long as the poet knows how to use the object properly.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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This gold medal, to me, is a very good outcome from the many years I've spent on my professional career.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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The government that came into power after the April 1994 elections was going to need a budget. It was drafted by our finance minister, Derek Keys, and he convinced them of the necessity to stay within the free-market principles that had been in force in South Africa for decades.
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Life is a dead-end street.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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It's an individual sport; you want to do well for yourself.
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I love dogs. I have a Golden Doodle and an Alaskan Klee Kai.
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I'm easy. Put me in an interesting location with good people and I'm there.
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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
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It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character.
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In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.
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I’ll make love to you like you want me to. And I’ll hold you tight, baby, all through the night. I’ll make love to you when you want me to. And I will not let go ’til you tell me to.
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Don't feel guilty if you don't immediately love your stepchildren as you do your own, or as much as you think you should. Everyoneneeds time to adjust to the new family, adults included. There is no such thing as an "instant parent." Actually, no concrete object lies outside of the poetic sphere as long as the poet knows how to use the object properly.
