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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.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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Here below is not the land of happiness: I know it now; it is only the land of toil, and every joy which comes to us is only to strengthen us for some greater labor that is to succeed.
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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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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.
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I think it's probably a good lesson for other people to follow - to not always make the decision that's popular for others, but to do what you feel like is the right thing to do.
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Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.
