Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.
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I'm the first to admit that the resolution of a hand feeling the belly doesn't compare with the resolution of a CAT scan scanning the belly, but only my hand can say that it hurts at this spot and not at this spot. Only my hand can say that.
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I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'
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I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.
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I have to remind myself when I'm on a job and I'm feeling a lull in attitude or confidence or whatever, I'm there for a reason. I have to constantly remind myself of these almost corny Pinterest mantras, like 'You are worthy.'
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I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody else knew stuff that I didn't know.
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Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.
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Written by the ancient Chinese philosopher of the same name, the 'Zhuangzi' is one long perplexing puzzle of a rambling collection of enigmatic short stories. It's a strange feeling to laugh at a joke written by someone in the 4th century B.C.
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Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.
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I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.
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Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
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When people recognize your work and want to reward you for what you've done, that's a good feeling.
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Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
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I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator.
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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
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There's a danger in romanticizing what it means to be a writer. Because what it really means is hard, hard work. It means tearing your hair out. Feeling like your head is about to explode.
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The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
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Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
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Looking back, I'm surprised I had the nerve to do it, but I'm glad I did. Performing the songs and performing in film was just a part of my personality, just like football and boxing at one point in my life. I was able to lose myself in both of them, and that was a good feeling.
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Yoga is a matter of the Spirit and not of the intellect. For just as water will find its way through every obstruction, in order to rise to the level of its source, so does the spirit in man strive upwards ever towards the source whence it came.
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The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.
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I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.
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I consider myself a significant supporter of any candidate I work for, and I am certainly generous, I think, with my own funds.
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Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.
