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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I can really laugh at myself and make a fool out of myself.
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He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
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I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
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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.
