Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
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Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.
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Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.
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In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.
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I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
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Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world.
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I wish I could just be in the movies and still enjoy everything else like a normal person.
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But I love the hot sweat. I think overheating onstage is invigorating. It's better than being comfortable. I think being comfortable is the death of a show.
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I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me.
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A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
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I had a Stuart Davis poster growing up.
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I got into direct confrontation with everybody I love.
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Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men.
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Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts.
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What is beauty, anyway? It's more than something pleasant looking. If it doesn't stop us in our tracks and make us unable to move for a moment, unable to put into words what's closing off the breath in our throats, then maybe it's pretty, but it probably isn't beauty.
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There are sixteen cans of coffee here; together they hold a total of thirteen and a half pounds of coffee. Doesn't that seem like cheating?
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I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.
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Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our heads. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can change its color and texture when the mood strikes us, but in time it will return to its original form, just as Nature will in time turn our precisely laid-out cities into a weed-way.
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Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.
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'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.
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Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
