Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings, I made them as an endless series. But I was never serious about it being an endless series. It was just an implied endless series. The theater means you just have to make it look good for that moment in the spotlight.
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Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.
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Truth is not merely what we are thinking, but also why, to whom and under what circumstances we say it.
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I don't have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing.
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Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.
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I’ve also been reminded recently that while as a society we are moving toward greater inclusion and equality for all people, the tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing.
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The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.
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Are you saying you don't love me?" Hazael asked Liraz. "Because I love you. I think." He paused in contemplation. "Oh. No. Never mind. That's fear.
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If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Ninety-eight percent of all American companies have fewer than 100 employees. Over half of all Americans work for a small business. Small businesses are the backbone of our nation’s economy and we must protect this great resource.....Helping American small business is part of our movement for change and the end of politics as usual.
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Obama said if elected his government would "harness technology to confront the biggest challenges that America faces".
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How we think about terrorism has to be defined and specific enough that it doesn't lead us to think that any horrible actions that take place around the world that are motivated in part by an extremist Islamic ideology is a direct threat to us or something that we have to wade into.
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We were just at the beginnings of a recovery [in 2010]. And the, you know, whoever is president at that point is gonna get hit and his party's gonna get hit. That then means that suddenly you've got a redistricting in which a lot of state legislatures are now Republican. They draw lines that give a huge structural advantage in subsequent elections.
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In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many transmutations, the dead husks of that same life. For all at last return to the sea - to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.
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I'm not a propaganda machine. I tell things how I see them. When I say, for example, that corruption is not the only thing the West should think about when they think about Nigeria, I'm not saying it doesn't exist but that people have the complete wrong focus. There's music, there's art, there's culture
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I have previously been a very enthusiastic consumer, and I didn't think about the origins of garments enough.
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When you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that the road is long, full of adventure, full of knowledge.
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Once we begin chasing approval, we never stop running. It's servitude to a thousand masters instead of one to please.
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Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.
