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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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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To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.
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I thrive on production. It feels very much like a natural environment for me.
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We are a very open, very democratic site, which means we get all sorts of people. We do get some bad guys who are a few fries short of a Happy Meal. So we have to enlist the aid of our community to help us. The lesson implicit in this is that people will help you out and behave in a really good way. If you trust them, they will respond to that trust.
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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
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Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond; so is the whole universe.
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Family dynamics are true over time, across generations and different cultures.
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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.
