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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Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
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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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This whole segregation between famous people and other people is complete rubbish.
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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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By venturing into space, we improve life for everyone here on Earth - scientific advances and innovations that come from this kind of research create products we use in our daily lives.
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I'm going to do a lot of weird stuff that's not going to be like me prancing around like an insane 12-year-old. I showed everybody that side of me and I think it's time to do different stuff, even when it comes down to the type of humor. I want to do some drier, weirder stuff.
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I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they'd taken for granted. Or that confuses them to the point that they laugh, but contains one or two phrases/lines that stick in their minds.
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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.
