Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise.
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Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
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My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
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The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.
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There was always that kind of imagination in our house, which was always a little crazy.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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I try to live holistically and avoid conventional medicine.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre.
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I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.
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In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
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Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.
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I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.
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Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties.
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The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise.
