Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.

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• There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Time
  • Moments
  • Singing

• As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • You
  • Change
  • Stubborn

• My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Parents
  • Amazing
  • Best

• People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Think
  • Team

• As an Indian, I would like to back my government.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Government
  • Like
  • Back

• As the liberty lads o'er the sea Bought their freedom, and cheaply, with blood, So we, boys, we Shall die fighting or live free, And down with all kings but King Ludd!

  

  Lord Byron
  • Live
  • Free
  • Freedom

• I'd seen 'Interview with A Vampire' and saw Dracula movies growing up, but I never thought, 'I love vampires; I have to do a show about vampires.'

  

  Alan Ball
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Vampire

• People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.

  

  Albert Ellis
  • People
  • Thoughts

• I grew up in Carville, Louisiana.

  

  James Carville
  • Up

• Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, 'Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone'.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Victory

• The people change, the common denominator is you.

  

  Phil McGraw
  • People

• Anyone who magnifies the power of a television talk show is very unrealistic.

  

  John McLaughlin
  • Power

• As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea.

  

  John Podhoretz
  • Period

• Everything we've been taught about health, weight loss and aging is wrong.

  

  Jorge Cruise
  • Health

• We determine whether a book is for boys or girls long before the reader gets a chance to decide: we package them with soldiers and ballet slippers on their covers, war machines and glittering gowns.

  

  Marie Lu
  • Long
  • Book
  • War

• I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Writing
  • Feel
  • Overcoming

• Man has a primary property right to his person and his labor.

  

  Louis Adolphe Thiers
  • Men
  • Persons
  • Labor

• Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • America
  • Giving
  • Technology

• The spirit of Lincoln still lives; that spirit born of the teachings of the Nazarene, who promised mercy to the merciful, who lifted the lowly, strengthened the weak, ate with publicans, and made the captives free. In the light of this divine example, the doctrines of demagogues shiver in their chaff.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Republicans
  • Teachings
  • Demagogues

• I really like intimate venues because it feels like everyone in the audience is in on all our inside jokes. We could say things and people will catch them. That couldn't happen at a festival because nobody would catch it. I also like that in a smaller space people can be talking to each other and listening to the music; they don't have to be watching you the whole time.

  

  Børns
  • People
  • Listening
  • Audience

• People tell me not to do a soap, but it was a great learning experience because I became familiar with the technical aspects of the business. Besides, look who came out of soaps - Julianne Moore, Demi Moore, Tommy Lee Jones, Parker Posey, Kathleen Turner. All amazing people.

  

  Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • People
  • Aspect
  • Familiar

• Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Familiar
  • Instead
  • Original Minds