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.
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Keep your debt low, and ask, Can your operational expertise make an impact? Then you're taking away a lot of the risk.
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In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.
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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.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
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I'm a vocabulary nerd.
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Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.
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The Pledge of Allegiance does not end with Hail Satan.
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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!
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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.
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Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
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Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians... and of all the Hellenic peoples, join your fellow-soldiers and entrust yourselves to me, so that we can move against the barbarians and liberate ourselves from the Persian bondage, for as Greeks we should not be slaves to barbarians.
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Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.
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The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.
