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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Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.
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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 best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
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I believe in God.
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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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In an industry with highly sequential innovation, it may be better for society to scrap patents altogether than try to tighten them.
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Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.
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... while infants will sync with the human voice regardless of language, they later become habituated to the rhythms of their own language and culture ... ... humans are tied to each other by hierarchies of rhythms that are culture-specific and expressed through language and body movement.
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It would be a very bad idea... to exhibit even a small number of this new series, as the whole effect can only be achieved from an exhibition of the entire group.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
