Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.

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I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
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I kinda wanted to play receiver more.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.
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Film and television are so piecemeal. You do one scene, and then you put it to bed, and then you do a scene that comes before. In a play, you have to go from beginning to end every night, and that's harder, but also more fulfilling in a way.
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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
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I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.
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I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.
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It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.
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I'm a darned good listener.
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It's hard to imagine what the Bronte sisters' lives would've been like had they been men. Different things would've been expected of them, and maybe they wouldn't have ended up writing because they would've been packed off to do something else.
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Jack Lemmon always said you can't learn how to act without doing theatre, and I agree with that. Because anyone can do a character for a take, but can you do one for 40 minutes at a time?
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I had the chance to be governor for eight years and I took a year to transition out and a year to transition in, so that's a decade of my life where I pursued my own ambitions and I thought it was time to rearrange my life to focus on other things.
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My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.
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I suppose an active imagination can be a form of madness. Or it can be the thing that keeps you from going mad.
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Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.