Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.
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I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.
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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.
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It's been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it's been given to me. I wouldn't be anywhere without Victoria's Secret.
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'Life as a Dog' is when I really started to feel comfortable, like I had the due north on my compass.
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Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.
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Master of the universe is every man's potential insight, cosmic potential.
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I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo.
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Facebook and Instagram are spiritual brothers.
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The actors I respect are the real character actors, who are the real chameleon actors that completely change from role to role. I love Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness and Gary Oldman. They tend to be British, I guess. People who really disappear and transform, I really like that.
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An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
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American music is a powerful ingredient in international music, and as much as it comes from within, it also comes from without.
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When we race in London a world record will be the last thing on our minds.
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Basically, we used to have a rule at 'Saturday Night Live' that you're not allowed to bring up 'The Simpsons' at the rewrite table, because 'The Simpsons' has done every joke there is. Every week there would be guys going, 'The Simpsons did that.' I go, 'C'mon.' And 'South Park,' too.
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So I just play the character, I play the lines.
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Happiness, in truth, may not be the fruit plucked by my action yet without action all fruit will die on the vine. I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. I will act now.
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As for modern Journalism, its not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.
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One day when Pooh was thinking, he thought he would go and see Eeyore, because he hadn't seen him since yesterday.
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All men are intellectuals: but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.
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The less you think counterfactually, the less you experience stress. Stress, in this light, isn't a bad thing. It's simply a warning system telling you that your mind has lost touch with what's real.
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I love to see lack of clarity in a performance as well as clarity, as well as trust, as well as the kinds of things that human beings go through. I love to see spontaneity and 'inevitability.' How it gets there is going to shock the hell out of me, but it will get there somehow.
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I didn't really know why I wanted to go to college. I didn't really have a reason to go there other than the fact that everybody else was doing it.
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I'm not the healthiest eater, but I try to watch what I eat during the week. I kind of splurge on the weekends and eat french fries and pizza.
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A person who complains that his children donĀ“t treat him well, should recall how he brought them up.
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Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.