Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.
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Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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Lauren Goode and I have agreed that the next version of the Mac software - all of them are named after places in California - should be named either Bridgeport or Warwick.
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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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Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
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It is God who gives us the opportunity to win and to get victories.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.
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The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.
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On the radio there's only a certain amount of artists: Jay-Z, Beyonce, Kanye, T-Pain, Lil Wayne, T.I., Mary J Blige, Alicia Keys. Other artists are achieving things that are really special, they have a hard time getting people's attention. Music has been just a little bit lacklustre.
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I think that we need to live our lives for the present... as if it is our one and only wild and wonderful life.
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I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.
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You cannot properly bring up children when you are 69 or 70 and they are 12 and at the height of their madness. You can physically do it, but I don't think it's morally justified.
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I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them.
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My first job was cutting grass. In Miami, this grass grows everywhere. You just get the lawn mower out, walk down the neighborhood, cut grass.
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Fact doesn't have to be plausible; it just has to be fact.
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I have to arrange my life very carefully. I need eight hours' sleep to work.
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Money spent on good-quality gear is always money well spent
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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.
