Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
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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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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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I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.
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It does not destroy matter, which is reassuring. Rewriting one law of physics is worse than trying to eat one peanut.
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My sympathies are, of course, with the Government side, especially the Anarchists; for Anarchism seems to me more likely to lead to desirable social change than highly centralized, dictatorial Communism.
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I blinked and I cured my brain.
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I'm a product of what I believe in.
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Often faith isn't hoping that good times are coming; it's trying to see that the good times are here.
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
