Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent weakens--when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is ornamentation, and ornamentation, too, is a hiding place.Friedrich Nietzsche
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Afghanistan is very satisfied with Croatia's participation in the NATO-led peace mission and expects Croatia to expand its contribution to peace restoration in Afghanistan to other areas as well.
Hamid Karzai -
What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do.
Yo-Yo Ma -
It's how the '70s were for movies, the 2000s are for TV. I think it's a phenomenal time for TV and to be involved in it.
Natascha McElhone -
I do believe anybody manufacturing products for healthcare cannot regard it truly as a 100 per cent business: it is business plus a humanitarian approach to society because you are saving lives. You are playing with people's lives.
Yusuf Hamied -
It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.
Daniel Burnham -
Ghostery lets you spy on the spies in your computer. For each web page you visit, this extension uncloaks some - but not all - of the invisible tracking software that is working behind the scenes.
Barton Gellman
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The team doctor, the team trainers, they work for the team. And I love 'em, you know. They're some good people, you know. They want to see you do good. But at the same time, they work for the team, you know. They're trying to do whatever they can to get you back on the field and make your team look good.
Calvin Johnson -
I don't listen to the news. I don't read the newspaper unless it's eccentric information - and the obituaries, of course.
Maira Kalman -
The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive.
Walter Jon Williams -
Music can tear me up inside.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
Not greatly gifted, not deeply beautiful, Madonna tells America that fame comes from wanting it badly enough. And everyone is terribly good at badly wanting things.
Martin Amis -
The reason passes, like the heart, through certain epochs and transitions, but its development is not so often portrayed. Men seem to have been satisfied with unfolding the passions in their extremes, their aberration, and their results, without considering how closely they are bound up with the intellectual constitution of the individual.
Friedrich Schiller
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Civil liberties victories never stay won, but must be fought for over and over again.
Ira Glasser -
Bureaucracy has murdered people in the greater New Orleans area and bureaucracy needs to stand trial before Congress today. So I'm asking Congress, please investigate this now. Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency, give me a better idiot. Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot.
Aaron Francis Broussard -
I do not love the sea. The look of it is disquieting. There is something in the very sound of it that stirs the premonition felt while we listen to noble music; we become inexplicably troubled.
Henry Major Tomlinson -
I like adventures and people who live with the volume on high.
Lisa Edelstein -
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
Bela Lugosi -
You read [Bill ] Maher's book, and he didn't take Econ 101. All his arguments about gasoline, it's not that they're right or wrong - they're just not informed.
P. J. O'Rourke
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The other thing that happened was that we have a tendency to project our own weaknesses onto another woman. I don't think men do that particularly.
Madeleine Albright -
Know what your strengths are, but also keep in mind what your weaknesses are; always work on your weaknesses.
Cain Velasquez -
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent weakens--when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is ornamentation, and ornamentation, too, is a hiding place.
Friedrich Nietzsche