Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling it. A parable.
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I wouldn't be where I am without Evolve.
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
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Declare Church and State forever separate and distinct, but each free within their proper spheres, and that all church property shall bear its own proportion of taxation.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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The song that's affected me the most profoundly is probably Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,' or, more specifically, the couple seconds of instrumental break before Vincent Price starts 'rapping.'
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One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
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I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
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Through the years, I found we had Native American blood in us. My great-grandmother came from the island of Martinique, and they hooked up with the Native Americans of Louisiana.
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Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.
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I've always been sort of a closet sci-fi geek.
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I was stuck in the benefits of being a known comedian.
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I hope I don't get a roundhouse kick from Chuck Norris.
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I lived just outside of L.A. for a long time. My dad was in the military, so I moved a lot.
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What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?
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He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling it. A parable.
