Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life.
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There's always going to be a part of me that worries about not looking as slim as other actresses.
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I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.
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A mom can't afford to be sick.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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I can knit quite well. I make really long scarves.
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A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.
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I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before the show and just cruise.
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I've just swum the length of the Thames. I feel quite tired.
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They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, / They brought me bitter news to hear, and bitter tears to shed.
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Most of my life, I feel I have been Unicycling at the Edge of the Abyss! If fact, this will be the name of my book if I ever write one, or a one man stand up routine. I have used it as the name of a collection of my musical compositions written during the '90s. It fits the scary journey I feel I've been on.
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When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it's just one damn thing after another.
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When I'm filming, I live out of a suitcase, so everything is thrown everywhere. In real life, I'm a bit tidier.
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Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life.
