Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• My style is all I have. When I go on stage, that's me in my comfort zone. It's not a costume. It's just me. And I want every woman to feel that way.

  

  Yuna
  • Style
  • Woman
  • Comfort Zone

• Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Time
  • School
  • Wisdom

• I don't know what love means.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Love
  • Know
  • Means

• As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Pain
  • Child
  • Young

• It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Religion
  • Bitter

• Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Jungle
  • Border
  • Colombia

• The United States of America became the envy of the world because we welcomed the best and brightest minds from anywhere on the planet and gave them the opportunity to succeed.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • World
  • America
  • Opportunity

• Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Experience
  • You
  • Acting

• Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • Down
  • Most
  • Oh

• All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Women
  • Man
  • Tragedy

• I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.

  

  Iman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Family

• Sometimes I panic to the point where I don't know what I'm thinking or doing. I have a full anxiety attack. I have them all the time anyway, but with auditioning, it's bad.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Bad

• I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Trying
  • Past
  • Learn

• Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Up
  • Word
  • Read

• Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Culture
  • Lost
  • Chinese

• For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.

  

  Origen
  • Men
  • Wise
  • Mystery

• My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • World
  • Parents
  • Positive

• I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled.

  

  Wendy Liebman
  • Women
  • Comedy
  • Comedians

• If, with the nation watching, three black women at three different levels can't get justice... for this community, you tell me where you're going to get it in our country.

  

  Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
  • Different
  • Country
  • Black

• The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Know
  • Never
  • Rules

• I'm a big 'American Idol' watcher, and sometimes I like to watch 'America's Got Talent.' Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it's so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Kids
  • American
  • America

• We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Life
  • Sleep
  • Stops

• There are two outstanding issues in democratic politics these days. One is the relationship with the media, which is now 24/7, and operates with a completely different intensity than even 15 or 20 years ago. How do we have a proper conversation between leaders and country when it's moderated sometimes in a very partisan and inflammatory way? And the second thing is the effectiveness of our democracy. How do we get the right gene and talent pool in politics?

  

  Tony Blair
  • Different
  • Country
  • Sometimes

• What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Talent
  • Stops
  • Revealed