Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.
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Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.
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I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.
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We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
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These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.
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I just developed my act way back in the late '80s. I went to college in Georgia, so I picked up the Southern accent. I talked like that with my friends all the time, because it was fun. It was funny... All my friends were real Southern. We're buddies, so I'd say stuff to make them laugh. So that was pretty much it.
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I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.
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Understand that the time in the audition is your time. Really own it and take control of it. And do what you prepared. Focus on really executing what it is that you intended to do.
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I have always been a strong champion for New Hampshire's environment.
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I always tell women to use the fact that we offer a different point of view in a room full of men, to their advantage. Because we often stand out, we gain a unique platform to demonstrate our knowledge and capabilities.
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It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.
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Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.
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I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.
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Even though jeans suit me, I never wear jeans.
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I don't do guilt. Whatever I do, I do it happily.
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All fame is is having people you don't know coming up to you and saying, 'Hello.' I'm always polite and people are always nice, but it's weird.
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It has to do - I think - with growing up in an apartment, with my aunt and my cousins right next door to me, with the door open, with neighbors walking in and out, with people yelling at each other all the time.
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The promise of any artwork is that it can hold us - viewer and maker - in a conflicted or contestable space, without real-world injury or loss.
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The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen.
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I have a really different touring life to most comedians because I go home every night to do the school run in the morning. So I'm not in hotels or living it up.
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The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
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People are invariably surprised to hear me say I am both an atheist and an agnostic, as if this somehow weakens my certainty. I usually reply with a question like, “Well, are you a Republican or an American?” The two words serve different concepts and are not mutually exclusive. Agnosticism addresses knowledge; atheism addresses belief. The agnostic says, “I don't have a knowledge that God exists.” The atheist says, “I don't have a belief that God exists.” You can say both things at the same time. Some agnostics are atheistic and some are theistic.
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I went from the glamour of working with Karl Lagerfeld and John Galliano to living on an isolated hilltop, with my husband gone most of the time.
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Self-sacrifice of one innocent man is a million times more potent than the sacrifice of a million men who die in the act of killing others.
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It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.
