Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

As a general rule, the longer a man's fame is likely to last, the later it will be in coming; for all excellent products require time for their development.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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• It's pretty funny, just driving by in a cab, and you see a huge billboard of yourself on the side of a hotel, like a 100-by-100 poster hanging up.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Up
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• Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.

  

  Karin Slaughter
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  • Fall
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• It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.

  

  Ian Mcewan
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• I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.

  

  Madeline Zima
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• We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key.

  

  Uzo Aduba
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  • Long
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• To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • Acting
  • My Life

• Pre-Internet, maybe it took six months for a fashion message to get across to a customer base. Fashion messages are now being sent out overnight, simultaneously, to every market in the world.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • World
  • Fashion
  • Customer

• The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
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  • Prison
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• Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit.

  

  Ice Cube
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• There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Life
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• I'm forever writing, forever looking for something to direct or produce, and always on the hunt for a great role.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Forever

• When I was nine, I was singing western swing: Roy Rogers and Patsy Cline. It got me noticed because no one my age was doing it, but it made me feel inferior because none of my friends could relate to it.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
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• A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

  

  Walter Bagehot
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  • Family
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• El hombre, cuando es solamente lo que parece ser el hombre, casi no es nada.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
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  • Deception

• It is simply that America is very rich and very powerful and generally speaking everybody hates the rich and the powerful.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
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  • Powerful
  • Rich

• The political writer, then, is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives.

  

  Cherrie Moraga
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  • Political
  • Words

• Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.

  

  Albert Einstein
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  • Rule

• Commercial issues related to the land that's being delivered and the development of that land.

  

  Bob DuPuy
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  • Issues
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• This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Kind
  • Government
  • Husband

• As a general rule, the longer a man's fame is likely to last, the later it will be in coming; for all excellent products require time for their development.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Development
  • Rule
  • Man's Fame