Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.

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• I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'

  

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• I want to stop transforming and just start being.

  

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• It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

  

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• The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.

  

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• There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

  

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

  

  R. J. Cutler
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• When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.

  

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• I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.

  

  Wally Schirra
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• I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool.

  

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• Mr. Trump, like too much of the church, offers little more than an excuse to project complex problems onto simple villains. Yet the white working class needs neither more finger-pointing nor more fiery sermons.

  

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• Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

  

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• My instinct about a human being is paramount. For me, when a director has walked into my room or an assistant that I have hired, who has later gone on to become a director, is purely based on human instinct, be it Ayan Mukerji, Karan Malhotra, Punit Malhotra or Tarun Mansukhani. I am very susceptible to human energy and energy of spaces.

  

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• Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

  

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• I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.

  

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• Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

  

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• The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.

  

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• New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.

  

  Eddie Huang
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  • Small

• His (Deschamps’) complaint of court life was the same as is made of government at the top in any age: it was composed of hypocrisy, flattery, lying, paying and betraying; it was where calumny and cupidity reigned, common sense lacked, truth dared not appear, and where to survive one had to be deaf, blind, and dumb.

  

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• You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing to a student.

  

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• I feel like I turn into my grandma when I'm pecking away at Twitter. And I don't care.

  

  Ariel Levy
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• Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • Gossip
  • Confession
  • Malice

• I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in England that will bring me off for that.

  

  William Kidd
  • Care
  • Journey
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• Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
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