Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party line like a rattling of chains, and excites sympathy rather than admiration.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
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• I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests.

  

  Ralph Allen
  • Day
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• Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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• Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?

  

  Orson F. Whitney
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• My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.

  

  Nathan Lane
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• I just tend to do things to myself that I don't realize I'm doing. Sometimes I bite my lip so that it splits and hurts, and yet I can't stop. And sometimes I'd play shows on the last run, I'd scratch my neck while I was singing, and I'd horrified to see these red streaks of blood after.

  

  Fiona Apple
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• He was about building up the Trump name and then selling it and leasing it in as many different ways as possible.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Up
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• You wear fur, it's like you trying to be something you not. You get fur, you can spend the same money on like, 30 jackets.

  

  Waka Flocka Flame
  • Trying
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• I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
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• There's something so soothing about the hum of Grand Central Station.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Something
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• What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • People
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• Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
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• I have two sisters, and we are the best of friends.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Friends
  • Best
  • Two

• I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Woman
  • Write
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• I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Wish
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  • I Wish

• You can blame my mom for some of my worst fashion moments. She used to dress me and my sister in a lot of patterns. Like, she would put me in striped stockings with a floral dress. Like, why are you doing that to me?

  

  Hailey Bieber
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• When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.

  

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• We have more and more one-newspaper towns, and that troubles me.

  

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• The message of 'Star Trek,' if there is one, seems to be that we should try to live up to the very best that we're capable of.

  

  John Cho
  • Up
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• Mother was born about 1880, and died in 1984 at the age of 103.

  

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  • Mother
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• In any restaurant, my eyes alight first, as if by an atavistic pull, on the meat dishes on the menu. In any dinner party I throw, I think of the non-vegetarian dish as central. I view this as a combination of weakness, greed and moral failure. Someone please help.

  

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  • Eyes

• Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

  

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  • Passion
  • Friendship
  • Sympathy

• For many older Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, a lifetime of discrimination has undermined their right to a retirement with dignity.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Gay
  • Retirement
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• The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party line like a rattling of chains, and excites sympathy rather than admiration.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Party
  • Sympathy
  • Admiration