Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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I am interested in the subject which is Russia.
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And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.
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I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.
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With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.
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A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.
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The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.
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Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.
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As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
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The most precious things in speech are pauses.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
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Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
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As an actor, a lot of things you do, people don't see it.
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Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
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Work is what structures adults' lives: it gives us purpose, focus, a set of responsibilities, and an identity. So when people are not participating in the labour market, all sorts of other things often start to go wrong.
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A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are in harmony with his ways.
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Man would sooner have the Void for his purpose than be void of Purpose.
