Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
The voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls.
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My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
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Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name - William Faulkner.
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When I walked in to read with Edie Falco, it was nice, because I auditioned in New York, and it was very quick. You walk in, there's Edie, the producers, the director, and a camera. I read three scenes, and it was done.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where for the first time in my life I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books. This was where I discovered 'Encyclopedia Brown' and 'Nancy Drew,' 'Gone With the Wind' and 'Rebecca.' This was where I became inspired to be a writer.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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This is something that I witnessed out on the campaign trail for three years, which is that there is a total disconnect between the rhetoric regarding immigration and the reality. And I'm speaking as a border state.
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I bungee-jump, skydive, surf and snowboard.
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Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.
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All you need is a bad angle and suddenly you're 30 pounds overweight.
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Every single movie I go up for I'm just checking the phone to see if the e-mail's come in, to see if I got the part yet, which makes me more anxious.
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I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it.
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I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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Every writer dreams of having a backyard cottage, similar to Dahl's 'writing hut.' English cottages and charming huts might seem out of reach, but a good carpenter could build a modest cottage on the cheap.
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The voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls.
