Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also on sale there but only rarely finds purchasers: the luxury and amusement goods. So it is that luxury continually imposes a tax on the simple people who have to do without it.
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You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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I like being unconventional.
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In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.
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When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
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Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.
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In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
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Every time I went to the doctor when I was in my twenties, he repeated the same thing to me: don't wait too long to have children.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
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I'm quite a good listener, and I'm good at looking after people.
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People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also on sale there but only rarely finds purchasers: the luxury and amusement goods. So it is that luxury continually imposes a tax on the simple people who have to do without it.
