Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Daß man wird, was man ist, setzt voraus, daß man nicht im entferntesten ahnt, was man ist.
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Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.
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To win a major championship - I think, at the end of the day, that's what a golfer's career is based upon.
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I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'
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Obama has been well-received on the world stage, but that doesn't help him operate domestically.
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I am healthy and happy.
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I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my career, one that's culminated in - at least to this point - playing a part in finding the largest field in the last 40 years anywhere in the world. That's the Bakken field, which I believe will yield 24 billion barrels of oil in the decades to come, maybe more.
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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I think my generation is obsessed with instant gratification. We want everything now, now, now.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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The condition of rage is one in which I find myself starting my day - once I see the news headlines.
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When you're 18, 19, you think you know everything, but you have no clue about anything.
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Lewis Black taught me stand-up.
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Some people can't sing - like honestly - but they're famous anyway, and they might be famous for being an artist, which is completely different from being a singer.
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We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don’t know anything about it?
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'God' said the Ghost, glancing around the landscape.
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Once you've dissected a joke, you're about where you are when you've dissected a frog. It's dead.
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One needs time to free oneself of wrong convictions. If it happens too suddenly, they go on festering.
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I do yoga. I do tai chi. I do a lot to keep my body and my spirit together so I can work.
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I made 'Prozac Nation' necessary reading because I write necessarily. I tell my story because it is about everyone else: in 1993, people took pills to relieve the pain just like they do now, but it scared them; it doesn't any more, because talk is not cheap at all - it is tender.
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Most actors are starving. Most of us are walking around with a flashlight and tweezers looking for evidence. When you have someone that actually writes an acting role, it's rare.
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We are all afraid of the truth.
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Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.
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Daß man wird, was man ist, setzt voraus, daß man nicht im entferntesten ahnt, was man ist.
