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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People like to hear songs that they can dance to. Even if they're sitting, they like being made to want to dance and move. By me being a dancer, I know how I'd dance at certain tempos. I was always good at it.
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When I'm not running, I cycle about 30 miles a day. I use the biking as cross training. I'm kind of a maniac. I race everybody.
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So dawn goes down to day/ Nothing gold can stay.
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Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
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I came from a family where if you say you're going to do something, then you do it, and you do it well.
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Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!
