Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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I want audiences to see me in different avatars.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
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Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.
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It's special to have people see you and tell you, 'You make me laugh.' That makes me feel good. I think if you have the talent to do it, it's your duty to pass it on.
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Unfortunately, I was making comedies in my 20s, but other people didn't realize they were comedies.
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We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.
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We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
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The rottenness comes from within.
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We love kitties, gawd bless their little whiskers, and we don't give a damn whether they or we are superior or inferior! They're confounded pretty, and that's all we know and all we need to know!
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The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.
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My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.
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I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
