Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid.
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But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
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I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.
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I think people thought I was crazy for leaving Mexico when I had any project I wanted falling at my feet. But I risked everything to come to Los Angeles, where no one knew who I was, and start all over again. It was a very hard step to take. However, it was the moment I thought it was right to take a risk in my career.
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Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.
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I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.
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There is a huge body of evidence showing that people do better in their work when they know why they're doing it in the first place. They do better when they see what they're doing contributes to something in the world.
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Jimmy Carter was - he still - he remains to this day America's most ex of ex-presidents. You just can't believe that we elected this doofus. He was a bright enough guy and sort of well-meaning. But he was about as prepared to be president of the United States as your goofy old uncle, you know, the one that memorises baseball statistics.
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Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can.
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When the time is right, I will do female-centric films.
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It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
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Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind. Individuals, and not masses, form the culture of the race.
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It was a carefree period and we took to it like genuine lowlife.
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Aillas groaned. 'Destiny could never be so unkind.'Suldrun said in a soft voice: 'Destiny doesn’t really care.'
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Buddhism … is not a culture but a critique of culture, an enduring nonviolent revolution or 'loyal opposition' to the culture in which it is involved.
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I know how it's gonna be when I die. It's going to be no noise, you ain't going to hear people screaming. I'mma fade out.
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I select good scripts, and every role is an opportunity to enhance my histrionic skills.
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When I was five years old I knew I wanted to act.
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When I auditioned for 'Pitch Perfect,' I didn't know it was a singing movie. I didn't read the script. I go to the audition, and I'm like, 'Oh, it's a baseball movie.' But then I'm reading the lines, and I'm like, 'This doesn't seem like a baseball movie.'
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I'm just stupid and too headstrong.
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I most fear stupid people. Stupid people will do anything. Truly smart people will do only what is logical for them to do.
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As I and the rest of my Pittsburgh Steelers teammates prepared that week in late December 1974, we knew one thing: The road to the Super Bowl in the AFC went through Oakland. To achieve your dreams as a team, you had to slay the Oakland Raiders. They were the barometer of what it took to be a championship team.
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If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid.
