Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
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The American Revolution as it actually unfolded was so troubling and strange that once the struggle was over, a generation did its best to remove all traces of the truth.
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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
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The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.
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I need instant gratification.
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The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.
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You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.
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In 'Nineteen Eighty-Four,' protagonist Winston Smith works at a propaganda department for the state called the 'Ministry of Truth,' where inconvenient news can be discarded down a 'memory hole.' Orwell was fixated on the idea that under certain governments, the past can be altered or documents rewritten.
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I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.
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wishes for sons by Lucille Clifton i wish them cramps. i wish them a strange town and the last tampon. I wish them no 7-11. i wish them one week early and wearing a white skirt. i wish them one week late. later i wish them hot flashes and clots like you wouldn't believe. let the flashes come when they meet someone special. let the clots come when they want to. let them think they have accepted arrogance in the universe, then bring them to gynecologists not unlike themselves.
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There should be a spirit of dialogue. Whenever we see any disagreements, we must think how to solve them on the basis of recognition of oneness of the entire humanity. This is the modern reality.
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I like challenges and I definitely would like to be more of a chameleon.
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There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
