Karl Popper Quotes
It seems to me that I may be living too long. Indeed: my nearest relations have all died, and so have some of my best friends, and even some of my best pupils. However, I do not have a reason to complain. I am grateful and happy to be alive, and still be able to continue with my work, if only just. My work seems to me more important than ever.
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The more success you get, you start to be harder on yourself or more afraid of the looking glass. You have to learn to build a thicker skin because people are paying more attention.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.
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It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
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People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.
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When I was a kid, I was super shy.
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I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.
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We didn't have much money growing up, so we hopped around L.A. a lot in the '70s, '80s and '90s. I'm very familiar with the shifting culture there.
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
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That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
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I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Let me tell you, my career went from zero to 900. Its hard keeping up with that pace, but I wouldn't trade it for anything else in the world.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.
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I believe the President was enormously effective in small groups, small groups being anything under a hundred, where you could really communicate.
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Learn the Arabic language; it will sharpen your wisdom.
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You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.
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Music was my one way to vent.
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First you have nothing, and then, astonishingly, after ripping out your brain and your heart and betraying your friends and ex-lovers and dreaming like a zombie over the page till you can't see or hear or smell or taste, you have something.
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It seems to me that I may be living too long. Indeed: my nearest relations have all died, and so have some of my best friends, and even some of my best pupils. However, I do not have a reason to complain. I am grateful and happy to be alive, and still be able to continue with my work, if only just. My work seems to me more important than ever.
