Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
To what extent can truth endure incorporation? That is the question; that is the experiment.
Quotes to Explore
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
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Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.
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I don't like possessions.
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I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.
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Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.
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Once we get them in the studio, you interview a person the same way you would interview another. You ask them a question. You let them answer. You try to listen closely and then ask a follow-up.
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To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.
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If you behave like a stupid moron, you're going to get called out by me.
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Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.
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To what extent can truth endure incorporation? That is the question; that is the experiment.
