Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.
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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
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Life isn't perfect, of course, but we all know it's how you react to things that counts.
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I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.
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In life, sometimes you just lose.
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I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
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We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.
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Ignorance of the facts of life gave me my beloved son, Dickon, but at what cost to both him and me, I cannot hazard a guess.
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Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, if my family wasn't with me and didn't support me, it would be really tough.
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Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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I believe much of the pain of a breakup comes from having a life plan that you have fallen in love with. When it does not work out, you become angry that you now have to pursue a new life plan.
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Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.
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One of the greatest men to ever walk this land was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His life exemplified unity by bringing people together for the good of all. In any small way I hope to someday bring people together like Dr. King.
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Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy.
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The question of what it is to live an 'authentic life', that's a complicated one.
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I like to think that I'm one of the few people in public life who write their own material. I write every word. And I really enjoy writing - especially my political commentary.
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It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid for my commitment to the truth and the way I live my life. I am prepared to pay more if I have to.
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'Sophie's Choice' is actually the reason I became an actress.
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My mother taught us to sell food in the market so we could pay for school. I would get up at 4:30 A.M. and start selling bread and cheese before going to class. School cost $65. The average salary was $125 a year, and with 10 kids, how are you going to pay for that?
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What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.
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Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.
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Beauty, the splendour of truth, is a gracious presence when the imagination contemplates intensely the truth of its own being or the visible world, and the spirit which proceeds out of truth and beauty is the holy spirit of joy. These are realities and these alone give and sustain life.
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I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.
