Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
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I became fascinated by marionettes, which I first saw in Venice. They were so haunted and so alive. You walked by them, and you could feel their presence, with their beady eyes just fixed on you.
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One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William.
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The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.
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To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
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The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.
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One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Our first phase was inviting all the women Ambassadors who were here from other countries and trying to get in touch with all the peace centers around the country in order to focus on increasing the volume and activity toward peace.
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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.
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When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.
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Sometimes if a song hits me really good the first time, I get sick of it. And by the 10th time I've heard it, it's just candy, and I don't like it anymore.
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We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.
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If there's one thing I hope people are certain of it's this: I'm looking out for YOU - the taxpayer.
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New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.
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I have to say, as a young woman of color, and this may sound controversial, in sci-fi, anything is possible. In sci-fi I can belong to the military. In sci-fi I can have an interracial love affair; I can be a revolutionary.
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There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.
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One [method] is by a Watch to keep time exactly. But, by reason of the motion of the Ship, the Variation of Heat and Cold, Wet and Dry, and the Difference of Gravity in different Latitudes, such a watch hath not yet been made.
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I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
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Issues that once divided Conservatives from Liberal Democrats are now issues where we both agree. Our attitude to devolution and localisation of power. Iraq. The environment. I'm a liberal Conservative.
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I come from a wrestling background but don't really use it in most of my fights.
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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
