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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One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted's passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams.
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It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.
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Nature is very clear on this. In fact, there's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks everyday. Now this is a law that's evolved over billions of years and the law is this: nothing in nature takes more than it needs. A redwood tree doesn't take all of the soil's nutrients, just what it needs to grow. A lion doesn't kill every gazelle, just one. We have a term for something in the body when it takes more than its share. We call it cancer.
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He got up and talked about what they ran and why they ran it. I was just amazed at his presence and his knowledge.
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Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations.
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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.
