Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Whoever wishes to justify [Philosophy] must show … to what ends a healthy culture uses and has used philosophy.

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• You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Live
  • Enjoy

• We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • People
  • Development
  • Islamic

• The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • More
  • Self
  • Execution

• We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Love
  • Know
  • For Him

• When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • You
  • Care
  • Example

• I'm from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers it was easy; it was a no-brainer. And when Sony took a look, it was a no-brainer to them, too.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Day

• If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Life
  • Want
  • Gift

• What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Small
  • Party
  • Woman

• You don't project yourself in the Hall of Fame as a player. It's only during that five-year period where people start asking about it, and it doesn't seem real until it happens.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Real
  • Player

• I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.

  

  Ice T
  • Rapper
  • Front

• That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.

  

  Barbara Hale
  • Challenge
  • Without
  • Actress

• I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Person
  • Creative
  • Busy

• Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Architecture
  • Very
  • Tough

• Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's?

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Children
  • Why
  • Hope

• I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them... I'd walk down the hallways, practically hugging the wall, dragging my head against it like I was crazy.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Time
  • School
  • Crazy

• When I started to record, I could sing in pitch, but that was maybe about it.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Sing
  • Started
  • Maybe

• No matter how rich you are, you can't get healthy air.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Air
  • Matter
  • Rich

• When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Language

• I like books that explore identity and youth culture or rites of passage.

  

  Emily Weiss
  • Culture
  • Identity
  • Explore

• I was an Army intelligence agent and a veteran during the Cold War, assigned to West Germany. I was the chairman of the National Commission on Homeland Security and Terrorism for the United States for five years. I was a person who has dealt extensively with these homeland security issues. I was a governor during the 9/11 attack.

  

  Jim Gilmore
  • War
  • Cold
  • Army

• I don't want to sound too cocky. But I consider myself superwoman.

  

  Ciara
  • Cocky

• 'Jack & Diane' was originally about race. I was playing nightclubs, and I was seeing new American couples, mixed-race couples. I thought it was cool. The song was my effort to make a song about that, but of course the record-company guy didn't like it.

  

  John Mellencamp
  • American
  • Guy
  • Song

• Whoever wishes to justify [Philosophy] must show … to what ends a healthy culture uses and has used philosophy.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Culture
  • Wishes