Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession…
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I don't miss acting at all.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
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I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
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I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'
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No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
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When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
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With brain and body, it's great if you have a connection between the two, but when separated, that leads to a lot of conflict.
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I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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I hope we've got a lot of fairways and greens. We'll go from there.
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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I've seen so many scripts, and I want to do everything. Like with kiteboarding, you have to be fearless. I'm not scared.
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You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.
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Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don't nobody want to play with.
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If you think individual, that's how you're going to come off. I've always given 'team' a chance.
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As one civil-liberties lawyer, who is concerned about the sometimes vigilante attitude toward accused rapists, puts it: 'Some people regard rape as so heinous an offense that they would not even regard innocence as a defense.'
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Yes, you could call me a tree hugger, an environmentalist, an eco-warrior even - except I don't spend my life in a kaftan, smoking joss sticks and walking a skinny dog on a piece of string.
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Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint. Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.
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This machine was a failure to the extent that it could not fly. In other respects it was a very important and necessary stepping stone.
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Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession…
