Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Working with Rosshan Andrews has been wonderful.
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What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
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I think it must be so hard to start your career with everyone going on about how gorgeous you are. To be in that bracket must be so pressurised.
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead.
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If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
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When anyone recognizes you on the street, they are always very nice and genuine and excited to meet you.
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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
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I've had two fights in my life. Both times I threw one punch, and both times I broke my hand! I really am a stranger to the world of fighting.
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I take nothing away from my existence in the 'hood, because it sharpened my instincts. We had a different way of living that developed our survival instincts, and I use those to this day when I make films. You can't buy that.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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I don't know if you can catch my vibe, but I'm a pretty laid-back guy.
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My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
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I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
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I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.
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I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often been asked to write columns for papers in Peru. And I can't. I would die. There's no way I could write a column.
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I'm still raising kids myself, so I don't feel like a grandpa.
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It's promising and seductive, that huge Italian family, sitting around the dinner table, surrounded by olive trees. But it's not my family and I am not their family, and no amount of birthing sons, and cooking dinner and raking leaves or planting the gardens or paying for the plane tickets is going to change that. If I don't come back in eleven months, I will not be missed, and no one will write me or call me to acknowledge my absence. Which is not an accusation, just a small truth about clan and bloodline.
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One thing I don't think that we have enough of in wine writing is the use of cause and effect. Whatever wine tastes like, whatever you're going to do with it, it is as it is for a reason.
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The auto industry is standing today. The middle class is standing today. Ohio is standing today. America is standing strong today.
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When I left school, I never wondered whether my apartment in New York was vulnerable to storm surges, but my three daughters have to consider the realities of extreme weather and how it may destabilize communities around the globe.
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Naval dominance of European waters was the largest, longest, most complex and expensive project ever undertaken by the British state and society.
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All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd.
