Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'
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Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.
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When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
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I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
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The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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I'm on a search for the truth.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
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People might talk more about Real Madrid and Barcelona than about Atletico, but what matters to me is what happens on the pitch. We compete with them year after year. I am not interested about the club's reputation.
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No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered.
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I was trained by my husband. He said, If you want a thing done go. If not send. I belong to that group of people who move the piano themselves.
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All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain everything that had happened to me in this same way. To label it neatly on a page: this leads to this leads to this.
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The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.
