Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending.
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I'm not into the whole showbiz scene.
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I'm hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.
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I used to do a lot of comedy. I don't know what happened. I think it's my face.
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However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
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If you will trust me with your vote, you can count on me to take those values to Washington.
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The United States is no longer first in the world in upward mobility. We can reverse that trend by giving our young children an equal start in life as they begin their journey to fulfill the American Dream.
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I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials.
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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
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At the age of eight I became, in my own eyes at least, a writer.
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Most people go to ashrams or retreats to destress and rejuvenate themselves. But I come back to my roots, the place where I spent half my life. And when I return, I spend time in the farms, eating a stalk of sugarcane, driving a tractor, and chilling with childhood friends.
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My children speak very good Chinese, and they translate for our American friends.
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I mean, George Bush is a man of prayer. He talks to the lord. He tries to get his direction from the lord.
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Make no mistake: Restoring our economy is very much a women's issue.
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I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. I'm glad I was disabused.
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Military glory, - that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood.
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Peace has been as bad as war. Peace has killed as many people as war. Peace is as bad. Peace is as bad...
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'Hugo Chávez is going to make Venezuela a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism all over the continent... he is an out-of-control dictator... a dangerous enemy to our south, controlling a huge pool of oil that could hurt us very badly.' 6
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I have teenagers, so I listen to a lot of music. They turn me on to great music.
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A lot of independent films offer a harsh reality check.
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Touring is starting to feel more like home than home does.
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Melancholic and lovable is the trick, right? You've got to be able to show that you have these feelings. In the game of life, you get these feelings and how you deal with those feelings. What you do when you are trying to deal with a melancholy. A melancholy can be sweet. It's not a mean thing, but it's something that happens in life - like autumn.
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Characters simply come and find me. They sit down, I offer them a coffee. They tell me their story and then they almost always leave. When a character, after drinking some coffee and briefly telling her story, wants dinner and then a place to sleep and then breakfast and so on, for me the time has come to write the novel.
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Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.
