Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.
Quotes to Explore
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.
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It's impossible for China to keep 10 to 15% growth annually. The economy needed to slow down, and we have to learn to slow down.
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No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.
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Any time you can get a muscle car back, it's a good thing.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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A mystery is a whodunit. You know what happened, but not how or who's behind it. A thriller, or a suspense, is a howdunit. You know what happened, and you usually know who did it, but you keep reading because you want to know how they pulled it off.
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I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.
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I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.
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The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.
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I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.
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It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'
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I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.
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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
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People digest and process music differently, and I'm sure that was the case even when I was a kid.
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The period of strikes reflected well on Costa Rica because it showed how we can resolve these disputes peacefully and democratically.
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How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.
