Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire.Arthur Schopenhauer
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
Larry Hovis -
So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
J. R. Smith -
The reality is that not only were we massively hit in 2008 when the bubble burst, and then we realized how deep the social gap, the economic gap in the world is between the super rich and the poor; also, we realized how impacted the environment has been. So there's been a physical consequence of that.
Edgar Ramirez -
Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
Samuel Butler -
Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.
Lalla Ward
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
Van Morrison -
As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.
Jacob Epstein -
I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
Wendell Berry -
All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
Sai Baba -
I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.
Barbra Streisand -
David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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And all for love, and nothing for reward.
Edmund Spenser -
For me, writing is a love – hate relationship.
Larry Wall -
Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
My main influence is Kool G Rap and Cam'ron, pretty much. If you were to mix those two people up, I wish that would be me... This is my voice. I sound like nobody; I sound like me.
Action Bronson -
Stilicidi casus lapidem cavat.
Lucretius -
I haven't been walking around for years with some burning desire to do a solo record. If I had, maybe I'd have made a record that was experimental. Usually, the idea of a solo record is to get some weird stuff out of your system, but I don't think like that. I wasn't interested in making something that was a hard listen - maybe I'll get around to that some other time. I wanted it to sound effortless, not like I was trying to reinvent the wheel.
Johnny Marr Pretenders
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Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.
Ziggy Marley -
A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent.
Alice Stone Blackwell -
The predominant difference between television and film is the pace to which you work, but the development of the character or the process for playing the character isn't necessarily different.
Elijah Wood -
Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire.
Arthur Schopenhauer