Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
I have somehow something like 'influence' … In the Anti-Semitic Correspondence … my name is mentioned in almost every issue. Zarathustra … has charmed the anti-Semites; there is a special anti-Semitic interpretation of it that made me laugh very much.
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If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
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I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.
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It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got to be very careful that it's not motivating you.
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He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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You cannot be in charge of a family and run a big company.
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We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.
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I just wear what I like, and lots of it is British.
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When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.
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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.
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I didn't do well at school, and I don't have lots of academic reference points.
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When I was 11 I became a massive fan of The Monkees. We had a so-called 'band' of kids on my street and we'd go along to people's houses and mime to Monkees records.
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It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.
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There are people who think that we should never reveal anything, never show puppeteers and all of that. It tends to be something that parents worry about more than kids, because kids work just at face value.
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I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage.
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I know how it feels to lose.
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You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it.
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No, I'm not coaching. It's a huge responsibility to coach somebody.
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I have somehow something like 'influence' … In the Anti-Semitic Correspondence … my name is mentioned in almost every issue. Zarathustra … has charmed the anti-Semites; there is a special anti-Semitic interpretation of it that made me laugh very much.
