Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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I'm the best Twitterer.
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I draw and play the piano badly. But when I'm doing those things, I'm concentrating so hard there's no room for worry. I find that onstage, too.
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I have roles in plays that I hope that I'll be able to do one day. I might be doing them at, like, the East Wilton Playhouse in wherever. But I think that Edie Falco... to get something even resembling her type of roles, that would be amazing.
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We've learned certain skills, we've learned to prevail somewhat, but we've not made it over the mountain.
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I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four hours away, and we would take the bus up to New York.
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Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.
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I work out in a studio. Every day, regardless where I am, at least two hours. I need it. I can't cease it.
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The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.
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I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.
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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
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Fishing ... is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.
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The young have less charity for aged follies than the old for those of youth.
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Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.
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Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.
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Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth,Stealing my breath of life, I will confessI love this cultured hell that tests my youth!
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The watchers below pulled in their breath all at once. The air felt suddenly shared. The man above was a word they seemed to know, though they had not heard it before.
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Brushing up on your short game at the practice area is fine and good, but taking it with you to the golf course - when your score is really on the line - is another story.
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What a friend we have in cheeses.
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Sometimes its not the dark that we are afraid of, but the absence of light.
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In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity. The distance between you and them can one day become so great that your joyous cry over some new gain could be answered by an universal shriek of horror.
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The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.
