Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
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I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it's all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.
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You could be worth $2 billion today and a half a billion tomorrow. It doesn't take much for this to disappear overnight.
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The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.
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I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.
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I've done stuff in the past and followed in the footsteps of my heroes, and each time, it felt a little bit surreal.
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I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.
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I'm really obsessed with the past.
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When historians of early America turned from the pursuit of past politics, they devised a category known in the academy as 'social and intellectual history.' In it, they stuffed nearly everything except politics on the assumption, which the anthropologists assured them was correct, that it would all fit together. Somehow it did not.
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I will just generalise it that anything that I find too disgusting is not worth an answer.
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The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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I'm so suspicious of our own understanding of the past. I just think that your mind plays absolute tricks on you and fools you every minute of every day. And so when you're talking about the past, you're talking about something that never happened. At least it didn't happen the way you think it happened.
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In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
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I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.
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A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.
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Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. Short, therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.
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Being scared is really a good thing. It's being scared of being scared that's bad. Being scared of walking through your fear, going to a place of true creativity - that's what an artist is, that's what he does. If you do that, then being inspired by your contemporaries or people from the past is really great.
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When Morris Louis|Morris Louis showed in 1958, everybody like in 'Art News', by Tom Hess dismissed his work as thin, merely decorative. They still do. Louis is the really interesting case.. .In every sense his instincts were Abstract Expressionist, and he was terribly involved with all of that, but he felt he had to move, too.
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I would have told him that I appreciated his friendship through the years and that I had learned a lot from him. I really loved Frank like you do a brother.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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Every past is worth condemning.
