Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
Philosophy of religion … really amounts to … philosophizing on certain favorite assumptions that are not confirmed at all.
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In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.
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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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I was pretty young, but because of that first record, 'Cole Espanol,' we took our first trip - well, my first trip - to Mexico.
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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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In addition, as citizens, we must fight in their incipient stages all movements by government or party or pressure groups that seek to limit the legitimate liberties of any of our fellow citizens.
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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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Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school.
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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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People talk about the difference between working on stage and working on film. I think you could say that there are as many differences between working on low budget films and working on big budget films. You really are doing the same thing, but at the same time you're doing something vastly different as well.
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I try to make all my work as honest as possible. I want the audience to feel like they're watching two people talking-having a conversation-as opposed to watching actors fake it. I want the audience to get lost in the fact that this is so good it could be real.
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That's one of the reasons I retired. To stick around, the way I was fighting, I would have to start playing it safe. I went out on my shield. That's the way I liked it. I fought that way my whole career. I don't want to bore people my last three or four fights.
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There is pow'r, there is pow'rIn a band of workingmen.When they stand hand in hand,That's a pow'r, that's a pow'rThat must rule in every land -One Industrial Union Grand.
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Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me.
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Philosophy of religion … really amounts to … philosophizing on certain favorite assumptions that are not confirmed at all.
