Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
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Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.
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I am so romantic about Gypsies. They're not allowed to do anything until they get married. So they all get married really young, at sixteen.
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There's no reason music should be difficult for an audience to understand.
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The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
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One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. But Hollywood has a way of knocking you back down to Earth.
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The cold, mean 'Sunset Boulevard' - a beautiful title, though I suspect it was shot on another boulevard - is further proof of the resurgence of art in the Hollywood of super-craftsmen with insuperable taste.
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My mom is proud of me. But she might not be too happy about the hours I keep or how little I eat. I wake up so late that it would be inappropriate to have breakfast. At most, I will have a snack in the day and dinner. I realize that it's not the healthiest way to live, but it's all I really have time for.
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What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.
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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
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I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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So many people are on television that don't know me, and they're like experts on me.
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I don't think humanity is the highest form of life that will ever exist in the universe. Maybe that's a bit cynical. But most of the people I know are loving, kind, doing their best.
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Miss Fairfield had a gift for taking a beautiful concept and then marring it beyond all recognition.
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I usually try to eat in my restaurants before I fly, as I'd rather sleep on the plane and just order a salad with cheese, maybe some ice cream.
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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Fate has it in for me to be an exhibit: that funny old lady from the telly.
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Religion and practical life are not different. To take sanyas (renunciation) is not to abandon life. The real spirit is to make the country, your family, work together instead of working only for your own. The step beyond is to serve humanity and the next step is to serve God.
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Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.
