Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it. -
The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God. -
I'm famous for being nicer to my fans than anyone on the face of the Earth because I figure a) They pay my salary, and b) It's probably like a big moment in your life to meet somebody so I would say, just come on up. -
I may not be the most famous songwriter in the world, but you know a David Friedman song when you hear it. It took me a long time to appreciate that. -
My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances we've become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.
More quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Error is acceptable as long as we are young but one must not drag it along into old age.
- Age merely shows what children we remain.
- The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
- The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
- This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.