Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
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Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.
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The unknown used to be really scary, just that fear of, 'What's next? What if I'm not prepared?' I just don't feel that way anymore. I feel like the best is yet to come.
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Don't wallow in brainstorming. Time spent fiddling with a business plan or filling up whiteboards with ideas is time that you could spend actually launching your business and seeing if the idea floats. Launching gives you real, solid feedback, instead of the imaginary 'what if' scenarios dreamed up in a conference room.
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None of us, remember, knew that 9/11 was gonna happen. We didn't live in a state of anxiety and fear about Osama Bin Laden. The CIA might have, and they failed to prevent it. But the general public didn't have any knowledge. Now we have knowledge of it, and it's a very clear and present danger in our lives.
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I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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We ought to be able to forgo the constant need to raise money and just focus on working together to solve the problems this country faces.
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Really smart people don't want to say stupid things, and they really don't want to be a part of a PR-engineered interview. People really do want to be smart, and they want smart questions. So, if you ask smart questions, there's no way you can't do well.
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Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.
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I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.
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I don't personally have a sense that life starts at conception. I don't personally have that sense.
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Most Israelis do want to keep Israel safe. The question is how do you do that.
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I'm not being really intelligent in my film choices; I'm just landing the opportunity when it comes.
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We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.
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Just because you have a piece of trash and you throw it away and it gets hauled away, it doesn't mean that it's not affecting someone else.
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There are plenty of African-Americans in this country - and I would say this goes right up to the White House - who are not by any means poor, but are very much afflicted by white supremacy.
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I know that people who have been to RADA and LAMDA can smash accents and do Shakespeare: all those things that I never really trained in.
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For a sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
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For me, my preference for comedy is grounding it in the psychology of the character, and not just kind of making faces. Even when it's a crazy character, grounded comedy resonates more with people because it doesn't look like you're watching someone do vaudeville. No offense to vaudeville.
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You remember what you go through as a kid, what's going to make you listen, what's going to make you respond. I held onto that. People who treated me like that when I was younger got every bit of respect and attention I could give them, because I knew that they were coming at me from almost an equal level.
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Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.
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I know how you clutched my back behind your house and sweated like a stallion whenever I came near!
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I had more fun making Traffic than either of the Ocean's films.
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Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
