Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.

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• I think what I do in my acting world and what I do in my standup world is bring up a brand that I want to bring across. Once you figure out your brand and what you do, it's kind of easy at that. You end up getting your audience.

  

  J. B. Smoove
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• Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.

  

  Larry Kramer
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  • Man
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• What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.

  

  Natasha Leggero
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  • World

• I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
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  • Love

• Do not hide behind utopian logic which says that until we have the perfect security environment, nuclear disarmament cannot proceed. This is old-think. This is the mentality of the Cold War era. We must face the realities of the 21st century. The Conference on Disarmament can be a driving force for building a safer world and a better future.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • War
  • Future

• If the perpetrators of the World Trade Center plane crashes had a nuclear weapon, there's no doubt in my mind but that they would've detonated it in New York.

  

  Ted Turner
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  • Mind
  • Doubt

• Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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• There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

  

  A. R. Ammons
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• If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

  

  Lars von Trier
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  • Apart

• If you are too nice, you will just get eaten alive. The football world is not always a nice place.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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  • Football

• In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that's why I don't always fit into the world of performing arts.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
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  • Art

• This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

  

  T. S. Eliot
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• It's true that the original idea was mine, but what you see today is the work of probably tens of thousands of the world's best engineers, all concentrating on improving the product, reducing the cost, things of that sort.

  

  Jack Kilby
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  • True

• We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.

  

  Aaron Siskind
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  • Believe
  • Relax

• Music will save the world.

  

  Pablo Casals
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  • Music
  • Will

• Zionist Israel's occupation of Arab Palestine has forced the Arab world to waste billions of precious dollars on armaments, making it impossible for these newly independent Arab nations to concentrate on strengthening the economies of their countries and elevate the living standard of their people.

  

  Malcolm X
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  • Independent

• They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world.

  

  Edith Hamilton
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• The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example.

  

  Dave Barry
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  • Science
  • Logic

• I find in film acting that however many years you have done it for, you can feel totally relaxed and at ease with the people around you, absolutely wonderful, then roll camera and a little part of you goes, 'Ugh'. It is learning how to manage that.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
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  • Learning

• I think implicit bias is a problem for everyone, not just police. I think, unfortunately, too many of us in our great country jump to conclusions about each other.

  

  Hillary Clinton
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• English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.

  

  Roy Blount, Jr.
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• For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • Dante