Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.

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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
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If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
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I eat a lot of chocolate.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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There are times as an actor when you don't work for two months, sometimes three or sometimes six, and the only thing that's going to keep you sane is if you give back and live your life. I've definitely gone through that. It's like, 'Okay, I'm out of work for two months.' That's two months I can paint.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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I don't like men who blow-dry their hair. If you are a man and you blow-dry your hair, then I don't like you and that's all there is to it.
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I am gay, and I'm very comfortable with it.
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I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone.
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Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.
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Oh my God, I love Max von Essen.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.
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When we look out into space, we're looking back in time; the light from a galaxy a billion light-years away, for instance, will take a billion years to reach us. It's an amazing thing. The history is there for us to see. It's not mushed up like the geologic record of Earth. You can just see it exactly as it was.
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For my writing, and because I love talking to young women about life, I often asked them which would they rather have - a father in the house with them while growing up or a big butt? I tell you 86 percent of the time, girls say a big butt because it gets them further.
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We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.