Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings.
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That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
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I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.
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Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
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All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.
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An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.
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Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has to be a recipient society to which the immigrants move.
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The Department of Energy is a critical component of our efforts to curtail climate change; that work will be less effective unless we collaboratively rebuild confidence in the agency and its programs.
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I generally travel with my laptop, a couple of great books, and my iPod.
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I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
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I'm never comfortable being in front of the camera, but I've learned how to deal with it.
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I suppose I could have sat back and pitied myself. For a time I wondered if I'd ever be able to go on to a stage and perform again. After a couple of weeks I began to feel I could fight my way back to health if I put my mind to it. I thought to myself: 'Pity never did anybody any good. Go on. Patsy, show 'em what you can do'
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I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.
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But when you want to come to work, it makes things that much better. Mentally, when you're at work, it doesn't feel like work. When you take the fun part away from basketball, that's a problem.
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IF you are not for yourself, who will be for you? If you are only for yourself, what are you? If not now, when?
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I certainly want people to read what I've written. Yet, and here's that question of economic position, because I have a secure job, I don't need a wide readership to survive. I'm a participant in the indirect economy, what sociological critic Pierre Bourdieu would call the "economic world reversed." I get "paid" by writing whatever I choose. That's a pretty good position to be in, but I don't pretend for a moment that it is not a privileged one.
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I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your rifle, and set down at the side of some shady lane, and say, nope, I aint a gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich folks wants to fight. Give them the guns.
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Jazz scares me. I've witnessed so many incredible singers and jazz musicians. Pop and soul music have always been the things that I felt like I could do.
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She had worried that she would break if her heart broke, but she wasn't broken. she had lost everything, but she was not lost. It seemed a worthwhile thing to know.
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In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings.
