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.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
Yogi Berra -
Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
Ban Ki-moon -
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.
Walt Mossberg -
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.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
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.
Jackie Evancho -
If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
Adam Grant
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
Malorie Blackman -
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.
M. J. Rose -
I've met every freak in the business.
Quincy Jones -
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.
Abbey Clancy -
That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
Ottmar Hitzfeld -
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
W. Somerset Maugham
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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.
Damon Albarn Blur -
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.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
Jack Kilby -
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.
Kate Moss -
Men are every bit as gendered as women.
Jackson Katz -
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
V. S. Naipaul
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Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up.
R. Kelly -
Apertures, passages from one world to another. Man's escape hatches.
P. K. Page -
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone else's eyes, and it allows you to try to empathize with situations that you haven't actually experienced.
Dan Chaon -
Being a man is bullshit; maybe trying to be a man had been the problem all along. At a certain point you just have to trust someone. Even if it’s only yourself.
Bennett Madison -
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.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe