Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

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• I'm not a fanatic about exercising. For me, it's about moderation and balance.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Me
  • Balance
  • Moderation

• All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

  

  Abdurrahman Wahid
  • Value
  • Religion
  • Islam

• In the long run, we will need many more African-American, Latino, and Native American leaders, and leaders from low-income communities, who can bring additional insight and a deeply grounded sense of urgency, and who are the most likely to inspire the necessary trust and engagement among students' parents and community leaders.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Long
  • American
  • Parents

• I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • Music
  • Power
  • Want

• I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Live
  • Real

• I'm the Bjorn Boerg of table tennis.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Tennis
  • Table

• I've learned now to have a second title in reserve because, frequently, I come up with titles that seem to make editors' hair fall out.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Up
  • Fall
  • Hair

• How can you be an atheist and have an ideology to go with it? To be an atheist is to be free of some areas of belief. I don't see how that can become an ideology.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Free
  • Belief
  • Atheist

• The older supermodels sometimes don't agree with the fact there is a new generation of models. We're not saying we're supermodels. I'd rather people look at us as businesspeople, and, yes, modeling is our business right now, but we're not trying to take anybody's spot, and we're not trying to discredit the past.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • People
  • Trying
  • Business

• When a movie is being rolled out, the studio publicists and all our individual publicists get together and come up with bullet points and talking points - 'Make sure you stay away from this,' and 'Don't say that quite that way, because that quote can be taken out of context,' and that kind of thing.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Up
  • Together
  • Movie

• You don't want R&B singers to get into beef. Leave that to the rappers, let them do that - R&B, be classy.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Want
  • You
  • Classy

• We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Black
  • Thought
  • Gay

• My God, I have almost never believed in you, and yet I have always loved you.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • God

• We always wanted to be a big infra player in India - in sectors such as energy, healthcare, education, locomotives, etc.

  

  John L. Flannery
  • Energy
  • Education
  • Player

• She had a big ole booty, I was doing my duty.

  

  LL Cool J
  • She
  • Quality
  • Duty

• Humbert was perfectly capable of intercourse with Eve, but it was Lilith he longed for.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Capable
  • Intercourse
  • Lilith

• Music is more fun when it's collaborative, in my opinion.

  

  Alex Gaskarth All Time Low
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Opinion

• Well, I am ploughing on my canvases as they do on their fields (the peasants). It goes badly enough in our profession - in fact that has always been so, but at the moment it is very bad.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Moments
  • Enough
  • Facts

• Gershwin inspired me very much. The concept of 'That Lucky Old Sun' was inspired by 'Rhapsody in Blue' - not influenced, but inspired.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Sun
  • Inspired
  • Blue

• You read about poor people having Botox go wrong and you think: 'Well, what the bloody hell were you doing?' Why would you inject yourself with poison? And why are we spending so much time looking at ourselves? I just don't get it.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Facts
  • Optimist
  • Pessimist