Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Acting is a job you can learn a lot in. You get to play lots of different characters with different professions and different backgrounds; they come from different places than you do, so it's really fun when you're immersing yourself in that world of that person to learn about how other people's lives are.
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The iPhone is like 'omakase', the style of sushi where the chef chooses what you're going to eat, and might even tell you how to eat it - no wasabi allowed on this, no soy sauce allowed on that. Definitely no California rolls.
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When you're coming up with new material, it's not always gonna be good. The only way to learn is for it not to get a laugh, so you can adjust it and come back the next day to see if it's working right. Next time, you might get a different laugh. You're constantly rebuilding.
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300 was the biggest hurdle. They tried to hold us against our will.
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Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.
