Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
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You know Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.
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People are so used to having their lives filmed, they're not even conscious of having cameras around. I still have that sort of suspicion when a camera comes out. I view it as a thing to fear.
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Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
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If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it.
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I look OK. I look better in person than I do on film, which is bad because it's how I make my living, but I am not a beauty and on balance I am glad.
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I really believe in, 'Move on, live and let live, forgive and forget.'
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I was born in Colorado and grew up in Pennsylvania with family in Texas and Oklahoma.
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You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.
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I didn't want wrestling anymore; I wanted to not want it. But I couldn't get a job anywhere, which was part of the reason I was homeless. I couldn't get a job pumping gas. I couldn't get a job working at a warehouse, I couldn't get a job at Baskin Robbins, I couldn't get a job anywhere.
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It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.
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And I have known the eyes already, known them all - The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,Then how should I beginTo spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?
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I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise.
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I think lobbying is really an honest profession. Lobbying means trying to persuade Congress to accept your point of view. Sometimes you can give them a lot of facts they didn't have before.
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They're out there, this appalling idea that there are companies that profit - not just profit but profit enormously - through war.
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Most people would not want to live where there are no churches but many people live as though there were no churches.
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Women could never beat men physically. So we have to be stronger in other ways.
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Changes to parliamentary procedure won't transform the lives of the people whom I represent. Decentralising, devolving decision-making and renewing civil society will.
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Part of elegy is confrontation - not just with the idea of death, but with the person who has died.
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The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
