Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.
Quotes to Explore
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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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War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.
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I never in my whole life could make a drawing like that; I would at any time have given one of my little fingers to have made such a one one of Girtin's yellow drawings.
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I'm my biggest problem; I'm the thing that stops me most from doing what I need to do to be successful or to achieve success in whatever area of life.
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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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To some degree, we're all thinking about the same things. It's the zeitgeist. The trick, in a way, as a writer, is to hope that your interests in some sense link up with the culture around you.
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Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.
