Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
Cam Newton
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Live performances always feel like such a moment with all of the costumes and theatrics.
Kat Graham
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Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.
Salman Rushdie
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My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.
Damon Wayans, Jr.
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I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true.
Daniel Breaker
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I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things.
Karin Slaughter
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A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.
LaDainian Tomlinson
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Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
Irwin Winkler
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In the theatre, once you've gone about eight rows back, everybody else is just listening to you. You're very small, and nobody can really see what you're doing.
Francesca Annis
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I'd never been published when I was young.
Jack Vance
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It's not part of my ambition to become fabulously rich. My plan was always to make my pictures, and hopefully people would buy them, and then I'd buy a studio, buy a house, help friends out, do bits and bobs - but I've no idea after that.
Gary Hume
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Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
Ogden Nash
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I'm doing naughty things, I'm drinking too much, I'm going to clubs. It really didn't matter to me, other than the fact that some parents wouldn't let their kids hang out with me.
Macaulay Culkin
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Fashion shows used to be more crazy. Now they've become a bit too serious.
Carine Roitfeld
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Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people.
Patricia Heaton
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My English was limited to vacationing and not really engaging with Americans. I knew 'shopping' and 'eating' English - I could say 'blue sweater,' 'creme brulee,' and 'Caesar salad,' - so I came here thinking I spoke English.
Salma Hayek
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I'd rather go to a flea market than just about anything. It's the process I like - the same with getting dressed. If I've got someplace to be, I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event. Sometimes. Even in my own closet, I love to dig and search and find.
Iris Apfel
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What does 'work' mean in this 21st, ultra-wired century, with its exploding new industries, low barriers to entry and endless possibilities? Is technology making our lives more flexible - or our days more endless?
Rachel Sklar
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On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.
Victoria Moran
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I don't know if I found soccer or if soccer found me. Especially because when I was younger, I was doing it, in a lot of ways, because I wanted the attention of my mom and dad.
Abby Wambach
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
Wendell Berry
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That's what I love about writing. Once you get the words down on paper, in print, they start to make sense. It's like you don't know what you think until it dribbles from your brain down your arm and into your hand and out through your fingers and shows up on the computer screen, and you read it and realize: That's really true; I believe that.
Ellen Wittlinger
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We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.
Arthur Schopenhauer
