Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
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Apple's advantage is that it designs and builds software together, so if the software isn't excellent, it does the superlative hardware a disservice.
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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 miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give up. I'd rather perform than go to public school.
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With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.
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If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.
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I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
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I've met every freak in the business.
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I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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I don't eat any dairy products at all, usually - it's a self-imposed ban. I've done it for a year now, since I was ill, but it's so hard.
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It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
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There's nobody that's ever really been able to take care of me. Johnny did for a bit. I believed what he said. Like if I said, 'What do I do?' he'd tell me. And that's what I missed when I left. I really lost that gauge of somebody I could trust.
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Barbra Streisand, for one, is one of my idols. I've listened to her since I was a little kid - the first album I ever bought was 'A Star is Born' with Kris Kristofferson.
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You lose only the things you have.
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Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.
