Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.

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• Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.

  

  M. J. Hyland
  • Law
  • Me
  • Rules

• Keep your debt low, and ask, Can your operational expertise make an impact? Then you're taking away a lot of the risk.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Risk
  • Impact
  • Debt

• In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Word
  • Constitution
  • Slave

• I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Think
  • Difficult
  • Impossible

• I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Danger
  • Terror
  • Effect

• I'm a vocabulary nerd.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Nerd
  • Vocabulary

• Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Trying
  • Athlete
  • Equality

• The Pledge of Allegiance does not end with Hail Satan.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • End
  • Satan
  • Pledge

• 25 years ago, when I started in New York, I had the pleasure to cook for Andy Warhol. At the time, I could have traded art for food - I should have done so, because I could get his work for nothing!

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Time
  • Work
  • Done

• It's interesting - an actor's research is different to just historian's research. I'm looking for things that I can actually physically use in the movie.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Different
  • Movie
  • Interesting

• Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Struggle
  • Impression
  • Ease

• Musicians used to be way more instrumental just in providing a soundtrack to what's going on in the world. And it's also important to state what we think. There's like this fear for their career, if they have anything intelligent to say about politics. And that's really messed up.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Up
  • World
  • Important

• I can do what I want to do, lucky me. But when these people are coming at me and asking these things, they don't really care about me. And I have felt like there were all these people who just wanted to use me.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • People
  • Things

• I had said from the start that I thought Iraq was a mistake, that we should have stayed focused on Afghanistan. I think it was the right decision because the Taliban at that point had gotten a lot of momentum before I'd gotten into office, partly because we hadn't been paying attention as much as we needed to to Afghanistan.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Attention
  • Decision
  • Mistake

• You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • People
  • Believe
  • Horror

• How can anyone lose who chooses to become a Christian? If, when he dies, there turns out to be no God and his faith was in vain, he has lost nothing...If, however, there is a God and a heaven and a hell. then he has gained heaven and his skeptical friends have lost everything.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • God
  • Friends
  • Faith

• It's not that diabetes, heart disease, and obesity runs in your family...It's that no one runs in you family!

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Family
  • Disease
  • Runs

• I'd definitely like to see less twerking and more power chords.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Power
  • Chords

• Shuffling really isn't something you should be doing on your deathbed.

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Should
  • Deathbed
  • Shuffling

• The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
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