Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• The ADA is the living testament to our Nation's commitment that we will always stand up for our neighbors' right to live fulfilling lives.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Up
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• I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Need

• My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • World
  • Dad
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• Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Think
  • Feel
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• I went to Mission Bay High School. Me and my brother, we both went there.

  

  Vic Fuentes
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• Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Great
  • Men
  • Age

• My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Parents
  • Learn
  • Grades

• We are extremely focused on building some of the assets which are going into mid-India, semi-urban and rural, and that's our DNA. We are building a retail bank, and a lot of the deposit base is still in urban India.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Building
  • Bank
  • Retail

• Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Happy
  • Mother
  • Nature

• It's never easy to adapt a book, especially as the author, because it's as if you're chopping off appendages. It really feels painful to decide what has to go.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Book
  • Easy
  • Author

• When a lion doesn't get its prey, it remains hungry. When the prey saves himself, he has not won, but has saved his life.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Life
  • Lion
  • Hungry

• I couldn't hold it together today. George Clooney asked me if I was OK, and I practically collapsed. I couldn't stop crying, I had to go off sobbing like an idiot.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Today
  • Stop
  • Crying

• Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • God
  • Movie
  • Die

• A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Me
  • Guitar

• I had an awful lot to say in what I wore as Romana.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Say
  • Lot
  • Had

• There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Important
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• I listen to all kinds of music, but I've always been a really big fan of Top 40 radio. If I'm in my car, that's what I listen to.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Music
  • Car
  • Listen

• The difficult thing for me is that I want basically to be a good man. That's what I want to be.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Good
  • Man
  • Me

• I don't know if it's the sunshine, or the fact that I actually have a job, but I do like L.A. a lot. In New York, it can be gray and rainy and cold, and you still don't have any money, and you feel like a bad Dickens character.

  

  Rich Sommer
  • Character
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  • Rainy

• The rainbow bursts like magic on mine eyes! In hues of ancient promise there imprest.

  

  Charles Tennyson Turner
  • Eyes
  • Magic
  • Promise

• MaCleod, since you've flown the SeaBee a lot you'll understand when I say it was the only airplane I ever owned that you could put in a dive, loose a cylinder and stall out!

  

  Ernest K. Gann
  • Understand
  • Loose
  • Dive

• Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp.

  

  Plato
  • Truth
  • Escape
  • Seek

• I'm not as self-destructive as Dylan Thomas, but I've certainly been around that behavior enough to have found it a release. The thing that I really enjoyed was being able to play misery.

  

  Tom Hollander
  • Enough
  • Behavior
  • Misery

• To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Behavior
  • Escape
  • Advance