Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.
Quotes to Explore
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There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
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Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.
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It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.
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I'm a 'Blackadder' girl.
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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
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The only credit I can give them. They synchronize wonderful. That's all. They synchronize very - you would have thought that they were actually acting, but they were synching all the time, and that's a rough job.
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I'm forever writing, forever looking for something to direct or produce, and always on the hunt for a great role.
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What separates sports from entrepreneurism, however, is that in business we constantly have to overcome undefined and unpredictable challenges. Athletes train for specific events and conditions, whereas entrepreneurs generally have little idea what they will encounter along the way.
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You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
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Just to be remembered is good enough for me. Lots of people are forgotten.
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I've said my piece. My time now is entirely focused on family.
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I'm glad I've never been so successful that I couldn't stop doing one thing. I've kind of been able to just kick it along and switch around.
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I want to sit with 80- and 90-year-old people more than anyone. They have played this game before. Not one of them has told me, 'I wish I had more money.'
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I'd like to recover some of the strangeness and wonder of consideration of the future.
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I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don't like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.
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How can you close your eyes and say this has nothing to do with me? I'm not speaking about politics. Politics is a terrible thing. Everyone wants power.
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Herir al corazón es crearlo.
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If you want to tell something to an athlete, say it quickly and give no alternatives. This is a game of winning and losing. It is senseless to explain and explain.
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Risk is relative. And relative to the imminent planetary 'game over' neon sign that's starting to flicker above our children's heads, just as they are preparing for a full life ahead... now that's what you call risk!
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Anyone can practice. Young man can practice. Old man can practice. Very old man can practice. Man who is sick, he can practice. Man who doesn't have strength can practice. Except lazy people; lazy people can't practice Ashtanga yoga.
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A loving God who has no wrath is no God. He is an idol of our own making as much as if we carved Him out of stone.
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I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.
