Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!
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During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
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I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
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You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of mystery.
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.
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I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.
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I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization.
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Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.
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Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.
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I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.
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Composing gives me a chance to work in multiple dimensions and helps me pare down my melodies into what is essential. Learning new skills has always energized me and scoring has opened up a world of sonic possibilities.
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I hate government. I hate power. I think that man's existence, insofar as he achieves anything, is to resist power, to minimize power, to devise systems of society in which power is the least exerted.
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Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get to me. Everything wasn't as hunky-dory like it was.
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Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.
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We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!
