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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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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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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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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War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.
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When I do period work, I really like to read about the period as much as I like to look at pictures because sometimes the written word is much better at conveying what their lives were really like and how much they had and where their clothes came from. Because, a lot of time, people dressed in their Sunday best to pose for a picture.
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I tend to listen to Sirius XM Radio.
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The other thing that happened was that we have a tendency to project our own weaknesses onto another woman. I don't think men do that particularly.
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Coincidence is a recognized element in 'real life.' All of us have anecdotes about those times when, by the merest coincidence, we avoided some disaster or stumbled onto some wonderful experience.
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The first and most important thing to understand about politics is this: forget Right, Left, Center, socialism, fascism, or democracy. Every government that exists - or ever existed, or ever will exist - is a kleptocracy, meaning "rule by thieves." Competing ideologies merely provide different excuses to separate the Productive Class from what they produce.
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We are not compelled to believe in biological uniformity in order to affirm human freedom and dignity.
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Winning is definitely contagious.
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Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.
