Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude.
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Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they're right.
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I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
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Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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He who can believe himself well, will be well.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I can only control what I can control.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty waterless cookware.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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A lot of what acting is paying attention.
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This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky, Rushing by, like a torrent down a steep mountain.
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Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
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With acting, the last thing you do is try to look pretty. Modeling actually makes acting harder - it makes you so self-aware.
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I read about violent things. I think what I get out of that is entertainment by learning about different things, and reading the genre and getting an understanding of motivations. But at the end of the day, it's still a book, and I can walk away.
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Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!
