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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It's quite fun to mess with the human voice. It's quite special in the sense that the voice is the #1 instrument that we can connect with; it doesn't sound too alien. I think that's the key is to find the line between sounding human and sounding robotic. That's an area that I like to explore a lot.
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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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I didn't think that the government would go as far as to include American citizens to be interned without a hearing.
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You can make fun of everything.
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One of my obsession is animals. I'm into dog rescues. It drives me crazy when people go to pet stores and buy dogs. There are so many dogs that need a good home. And this sounds crazy, but I really believe they know what is happening and are appreciative, and I just think they make for the best pets.
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I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.
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You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter's going to be. That's what makes it exciting.
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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.'
