Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.
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When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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At times, we need to stop and rethink everything. Our entire history is made up of people who were sure they knew the truth yet forgot that the truth has an annoying tendency to change on occasion without us noticing it.
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I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.
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The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
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Africa is the future.
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After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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You can bring people together around the issue of economic fairness. I don't want to be a mayor that goes into one neighborhood and gets jeered, and goes into another neighborhood and gets cheered.
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I was born in Nashville, Tenn., but I have lived in a number of places. In 1937, I moved to Baltimore, Md., where I attended junior high and high school. I lived there for five years before leaving for college.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.
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When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
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If you don't really have a dream, you can't really push yourself; you don't really know what the target is.
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I didn't believe in spiritual homelands, and found God as readily in a strip mall as in a mosque.
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While my mother wanted me to be a musician, I wanted to become an electronic engineer.
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I have a famous brother, and I see what his life's like. He can stay places 15 minutes, and then he's got to leave. So I've seen what it's like to be famous, and I haven't really aspired to be a huge mega-star - not that I've had that opportunity.
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If you ain't the lead dog, the view never changes.
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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
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We wanted to guide the musicians, so we could create our own sound. We would never let the band just go in and play the chord sheets. We were very focused on what we had in mind for these productions.
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What does not kill me makes me stronger.
