Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.
Quotes to Explore
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I was always playing the hard-bitten drunk.
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My singing led into acting, and that is how I discovered acting.
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I don't have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing.
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It's ill-luck to serve a bad man,
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Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.
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The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.
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If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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The United States and Saudi Arabia have an extraordinary relationship and friendship that dates back to Franklin Roosevelt and King Faisal.
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How we think about terrorism has to be defined and specific enough that it doesn't lead us to think that any horrible actions that take place around the world that are motivated in part by an extremist Islamic ideology is a direct threat to us or something that we have to wade into.
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If the Bible didn't show us the weaknesses, the vulnerabilities, the sins of our heroes, we might have deep questions about their true virtue.
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I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid. The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.
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At the very smallest wheel of our reasoning it is possible for a handful of questions to break the bank of our answers.
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In my entire life I have never seen a player of such quality and personality at such a young age, particularly wearing the 'heavy' shirt of one of the world's great clubs.
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I don’t see the problem with footballers taking their shirts off after scoring a goal? They enjoy it and the young ladies enjoy it too. I suppose that's one of the main reasons women come to football games, to see the young men take their shirts off. Of course they’d have to go and watch another game because my lads are as ugly as sin.
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My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!
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Years in themselves mean nothing. How we live them means everything.
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A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
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Don't think to come over me with th' old tale, that the rich know nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if they don't know, they ought to know.
