Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.
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No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.
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With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.
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I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.
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I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.
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My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.
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The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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You can show me some stick ice cream and I can tell you if it's good or not just looking at it.
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Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.
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People think I am funny all the time. But I am not. I am serious, too. Also, I enjoy serious, dramatic films.
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And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, 'Hmm, there's half a page that's good here.' Then you throw out everything else.
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Gloves make you so much more delicate.
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In urban America, you do not so much meet a romantic partner as inherit the product of someone else's romantic crimes.
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I treat my acting career with a lot of respect.
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My special cause, the one that alerts my interest and quickens the pace of my life, is to preserve the wildflowers and native plants that define the regions of our land-to encourage and promote their use in appropriate areas, and thus help pass on to generation in waiting the quiet jobs and satisfactions I have known since my childhood.
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Apartment living is tough action. Just the whole idea that you share a washer and dryer always freaked me out.
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The people who survive avoid snowball scenarios in which bad trades cause them to become emotionally destabilized and make more bad trades. They are also able to feel the pain of losing. If you don't feel the pain of a loss, then you're in the same position as those unfortunate people who have no pain sensors. If they leave their hand on a hot stove, it will burn off. There is no way to survive in the world without pain. Similarly, in the markets, if the losses don't hurt, your financial survival is tenuous.
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Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?
