Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.
Quotes to Explore
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For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision.
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The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm.
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Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.
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It was always my dream to write for a living.
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Food-wise, oh man, I tend to really indulge on vacation because a lot of my friends are incredible chefs. One friend makes an eggplant parmesan that is heavenly and melts in your mouth, and another makes a chocolate pudding that I can't resist.
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It's true that I'm not ashamed of my body. I'm comfortable, and I think more women should be more confident.
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I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.
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I love it when a guy compliments my vibe.
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I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.
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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
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Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
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When I first went to 'National Geographic,' I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because of my parents and the culture of continual learning they imposed on us, I later came to believe I was the most qualified person who ever worked there.
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People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.
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The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
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I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.
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Our earliest evidence of government, in the ruins of Babylon and Egypt, shows nothing but ziggurats and pyramids of wasted taxpayer money, the TARP funds and shovel-ready stimulus programs of their day.
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It seemed to me that I, the spirit of so many worlds, the flower of so many ages, was the Church Cosmical, fit at last to be the bride of God. But instead I was blinded and seared and struck down by terrible light.
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Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.
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I can't tell you what that little ingredient is which makes that first person want to go on and aggressively do more, and the other person be content to not do that. It's a mystery, but it does happen.
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If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief.
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With our goddess, the Pachamama, and it is not possible to continue having a monopoly of religious faith, only Catholic. We have therefore adopted the new constitution as a secular state where all religious beliefs will be respected.
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Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.
