Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
Philosophy of religion … really amounts to … philosophizing on certain favorite assumptions that are not confirmed at all.
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
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I have been talking to a lot of people who don't normally vote Democratic - independents and Republicans. They have been voting for Democrats because they think it's important to change the direction America is going.
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Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.
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President Mandela was not a hands-on president at any time.
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I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.
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I don't think Osama is a Muslim. I don't think Osama is a human being.
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I think a lot of actors will tell you that playing a villain can be more fun than playing the straight and narrow good guy.
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A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.
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The real essence of work is concentrated energy.
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I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades.
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I think, as an actor, you're always traveling. There's a sense of dislocation sometimes from home.
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Gymnastics should be popular everywhere; you just need the right person to start the right programme.
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What fascinated my imagination was the tremendous feat, which I felt I should be perfectly able to accomplish.
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I touched her thigh and death smiled
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I smiled at him but knew it did not reach my eyes. I smiled because he smiled at me, more reflex than emotion. Inside I was nothing. It was a little like being in shock. Shock is nature's insulation, the thing that shuts you down so you can heal, or sometimes so you can die without hurting, or being afraid...
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All those things at which thou wishest to arrive by a circuitous road, thou canst have now, if thou dost not refuse them to thyself.
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The world has a truly historic pope in Francis.
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When I first went on tour with PJ in '98, I was still in shock having gone through the Soundgarden break up.
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Everything we know is only some kind of approximation, because we know that we do not know all the laws yet. Therefore, things must be learned only to be unlearned again or, more likely, to be corrected.
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I probably spend more time with my kids than the average stay-at-home mother.
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People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.
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Philosophy of religion … really amounts to … philosophizing on certain favorite assumptions that are not confirmed at all.
