Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.
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I follow my own head. And if I'm determined to do something, then I'll make sure that I make it happen.
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You say 'African music' and you think 'tribal drumming.' But there's a lot of African music that's like James Brown, and a lot, too, that sounds very Hispanic.
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I just grew up loving acting and loving entertainment.
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Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well?
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Believe it or not, I don't own a TV. Crazy huh? I'm not a big movie-goer either. I just feel like I'm watching work. I am always outside and couldn't care less about what's on TV these days.
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The Bible for me is holy writ. It's a very straightforward thing, although I am not a literalist.
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I know that is what I was put on Earth to do - to be a mother.
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I talk about religion because it's one of the ways human beings find power and belonging. Religion is more than just that - I think faith traditions give us ways to talk about experiences of the numinous, too - but power and belonging are a big part of it.
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Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.
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Mostly I try to be the best example of me that I can be.
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There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.
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Two generations ago only a few unfortunate children ever saw anyone hit over the head with a brick, shot, rammed by a car, blown up, immolated, raped or tortured. Now all children, along with their elders, see such images every day of their lives and are expected to enjoy them. ... The seven-year-old who hides his eyes in the family cops-and-robbers drama is desensitized four years later to a point where he crunches potato chips through the latest video nasty.
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America has lost a great president and a great, kind and gentle man.
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It's not partisan, ... I don't think education can be a partisan issue if we're going to be successful. Partisan politics in this country can get things stuck. It needs to be what can we do for the next generation of kids. And what do they need.
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As I said before, evolution doesn’t bother me. If you tell me that God created the earth “by hand” in six days some thousands of years ago, I am impressed. If you tell me instead that God set a whole cosmos in motion some billions of years ago, a cosmos perfectly calibrated within the narrowest of margins to produce at least one planet where life would be developed through cause-effect chains that were designed into it by a purposeful Designer… I am no less impressed; in fact, I may be even more impressed. The “how” and “when” of it all seem almost inconsequential to me compared to the “what” and “why” which lie beyond cause and effect.
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Pride is about the ugliest trait somebody can have.
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If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.
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He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.
