Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

One does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

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Anonymity breeds meanness.
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I am a passionate civil libertarian.
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I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
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'SNL' can be a stressful environment, and I am panicking constantly, but I guess I keep it pretty internal.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.
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I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.
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People shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to get high-quality clothing.
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I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
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Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
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I don't like to make a big splash anyway.
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Eat well and sleep well. That will feed your nervous system and your psyche. As you get older, you look how you feel.
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I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.
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Yeah, I kind of grew up in front of the camera: I started modeling when I was two.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
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It was necessary to have an even depth of corn on the top compared to the sides, so the air would not take the easiest route and not evenly dry the stored corn.
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I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgment in all human affairs.
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Do you know that drawing with words is also an art... ?
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Most of the paint I use is a liquid, flowing kind of paint. The brushes I use are more a sticks rather than brushes – the brush doesn't touch the surface on the canvas, it's just above.. ..so I am able to be more free and to have greater freedom and move about the canvas, with greater ease.
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If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x × y is less than y.
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Man is apart of society. Society is a part of nature and the animate nature is the part of the physical universe. Therefore no political practice can guarantee ultimate success unless it is guided by fundamental philosophical principles.
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One does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.