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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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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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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My dear, be a good man - be virtuous - be religious - be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here. ...God bless you all.
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I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book.
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All earth’s full rivers can not fillThe sea that drinking thirsteth still.
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My house has too many distractions. There's the email. There's checking my Amazon ranking. I know I'm the only author who's ever done that, ever. There's the fax. Too many distractions. I like to go out and write.
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It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.
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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.
