Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way - not at all or in an interesting manner.

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• It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Mind
  • May

• I like to do the splits onstage.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Like
  • Onstage
  • Splits

• I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Good
  • Choices
  • Son

• I always do my interviews face to face.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Always
  • Face
  • Interviews

• Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Power
  • Me
  • Virtue

• Speed can't always get you wickets.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • You
  • Always
  • Speed

• Since the 1980s, we've been living in this era, really, of corporate rule, based on this idea that the role of government is to liberate the power of capital so that they can have as much economic growth as quickly as possible, and then all good things will flow from that.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Good
  • Power
  • Growth

• It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Know
  • Nice
  • Beginning

• I generally have a brand of brief on every day.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Brand

• Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Terrible
  • Price
  • Economics

• 'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Book
  • Earth
  • Diversity

• My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'

  

  Kamala Harris
  • May
  • Mother
  • You

• I'm far from being a homosexual.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Being
  • Far
  • Homosexual

• A bad system will beat a good person every time.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• Imagine: in the medieval ages, there was no evidence of how the history of mankind has been affected by witchcraft. But there is significant factual history of how brutality and sadism of mankind have been displayed in the most obscene manner in the name of witch-hunt.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • History
  • Name
  • Evidence

• You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.

  

  Randy Couture
  • You
  • Play
  • Find

• A lot of times when I ran, to be honest, I didn't know where I was in the race. So I always was looking up at the scoreboard to say, 'Just call my name to see where I am,' because I tried to have such tunnel vision not to distract myself.

  Gail Devers
  • Vision
  • Name
  • Race

• I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • School
  • Drama
  • Working

• In New York, the theater is a destination point. In Los Angeles, no matter how provocative, how successful, how star-studded the theater event may be, it is, at best, a second-class citizen.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • May
  • Star

• Certainly when, you know, you put a lot of creative people together, there's ego and tension and all that stuff comes into play. But on the flip side, there's a lot of camaraderie and closeness.

  

  Darren Star
  • People
  • Together
  • Ego

• I think also there's no question that Lincoln has been diluted down through history in some way, almost by becoming as iconic as he is, in a way he's become diluted.

  

  James Spader
  • History
  • Question

• My mind was bursting with depression and anguish. I muttered imprecations and murmuring as I passed along. I was full of loathing and abhorrence of life, and all that life carries in its train.

  

  William Godwin
  • Mind
  • Depression
  • Train

• We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way - not at all or in an interesting manner.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
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