Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.
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I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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I've been training quite hard.
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What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.
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With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
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I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime.
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I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
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I've been told I'm a player, but people still don't always return my calls.
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I think it was Elisabeth Shue who said that if you start a movie with a woman seen through a man's eyes, that woman is objectified by him throughout.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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I certainly don't delude myself that there aren't certainly more important things to do in life than make people laugh, but I can't imagine anything that would bring me more joy.
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I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.
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Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.
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When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible, and would hesitate to make use of such astounding contradictions as occur in history through some extraordinary accident or twist of psychology .
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The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!
