Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

He that prefers the beautiful to the useful in life will, undoubtedly, like children who prefer sweetmeats to bread, destroy his digestion and acquire a very fretful outlook on the world.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.

  

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• It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

  

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• I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.

  

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• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
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• I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.

  

  Kat Dennings
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• The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.

  

  Eddie Murphy
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• It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.

  

  Mackenzie Rosman
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• The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

  

  Lao Tzu
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• I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.

  

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• Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.

  

  Jack Germond
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• There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.

  

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• It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her.

  

  Laura Innes
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• I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?

  

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• The way to resumption is to resume.

  

  Salmon Portland Chase

• Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
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• To the youth who have taken up guns, I urge them to return to their parents and shun violence.

  

  Kapil Sibal
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• For the inquisition of Final Causes is barren, and like a virgin consecrated to God produces nothing.

  

  Francis Bacon
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• Comes now a smiling New-Born Year To fill to-day with goodly cheer— An infant hale and lusty. Upon our door-sill he is left By Daddy Time, of clothes bereft Despite the season gusty. If he be Churl or doughty Knight, A Son of Darkness or of Light No man can tell, God bless him! But be he base or glorious Time puts it wholly up to us To dress him!

  

  John Kendrick Bangs
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• Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.

  

  Jack McBrayer
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• We aren't into the consumer space because that space is largely dominated by search and advertising, and it has a consumer face to it.

  

  Jack Dangermond
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• I'm always looking for something that tells me a little bit about what it means to be human. That's how I measure the success of any artistic endeavor.

  

  Martin Donovan
  • Success

• He that prefers the beautiful to the useful in life will, undoubtedly, like children who prefer sweetmeats to bread, destroy his digestion and acquire a very fretful outlook on the world.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Life
  • World
  • Children