Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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People think they know who I am, because I've played so many very, very out gay men on stage, and they think that's me.
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
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If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.
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I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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I draw and play the piano badly. But when I'm doing those things, I'm concentrating so hard there's no room for worry. I find that onstage, too.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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It's always a wake-up call to get beaten.
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This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.
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When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right hand knows that 0.3 seconds after I hit this key, I need to hit that one. And the right hand knows not to hit keys that the left hand is playing, so the hands do not collide.
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With the benefit of hindsight, had more care been taken, maybe this could have been avoided.
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I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.
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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
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I think Margaret Thatcher was a superstar in this country, and I think we all felt we needed a superstar to play her, somebody of huge intelligence, passion, and power and warmth.
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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
