Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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Sometimes I panic to the point where I don't know what I'm thinking or doing. I have a full anxiety attack. I have them all the time anyway, but with auditioning, it's bad.
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Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, and maybe your old books get a bump, but my books seem to keep being discovered and recommended to new people of all ages.
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For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.
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Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.
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For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
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I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have that as well as a poster on every student's wall, then you're in a very enviable position. I'd like to do a Damien Hirst for £500 at some point.
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The part of Stripe that I've always found most interesting is the idea of facilitating new commerce that wouldn't otherwise happen. Payouts is turning out to be a big part of that. These new networks are efficient, intelligent replacements for offline behemoths.
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I cannot live anywhere else except India.
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Why consider debates in the English House of Commons in 1628 along with documents on American developments in the late eighteenth century? The juxtaposition is not capricious, because the Commons during this period generated many of the ideas that were later embodied in the government of the United States.
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If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.
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If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
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Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.
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If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke.
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Letting someone down is not criminal action.
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I had a particular affinity for wrestling, and it did have a lot to do with being small and being combative - and being angry. And when you're small and you don't back down, you get in a lot of fights.
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Diane Keaton was a big role model for me.
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I think what I most admired about my father was his extraordinary courage. He had such energy to pursue whatever he wanted, and he really didn't care what others thought.
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I think women of a certain generation, mine in particular, feel like we can have it all because that's what we were fed. It's like, we reap the benefits of the feminist movement - they did all the legwork and now we're going to try to be parents and successful business people and great wives and good friends and take a cooking class and blah, blah, blah.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
