Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are always living in expectation of better things, at the same time we often repent and long to have the past back again.
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You know, on the road, I never miss a meal. I eat five, six, seven times a day, depending on when I wake up and when I got to sleep. I never miss a training day. I always get my four days out of my seven.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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Communities don't think, don't believe, don't want, don't have needs, don't have interests and don't make decisions. Only individuals have minds that generate desires and needs - and only individuals can make choices and decisions.
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Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.
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Success is the sweetest revenge.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world.
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What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.
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I usually play big and mean, big and stupid, or big and funny.
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There's no denying it: I was a crappy baby who failed his way into this world, and I've been making the best of it ever since.
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Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
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I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it's my stuff.
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Bad stories are written about me because the press knows they can make me into a weeping dog and few people will object.
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I am obsessed with John Mayer. I love him. I just think he's so talented. I have his documentary in my iTunes. I watch it all the time.
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We all have jobs in our lives that we must get done. We reach out and bring products into our lives to get these jobs done. Marketing is all about asking, 'What job is the customer trying to accomplish?'
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All we know is that, at times, fighting the Russians, we had to remove the piles of enemy bodies from before our trenches, so as to get a clear field of fire against new waves of assault.
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I didn't need to get knocked down to know the fortitude that I have in me.
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Politically active people felt more and more disenfranchised, particularly during the ultra-New Labour years.
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In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.
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In the Republican Party, we talk all the time about the importance of free markets and open competition. It seems to me that if we don't practice what we preach, we won't have much credibility with others.
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To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are always living in expectation of better things, at the same time we often repent and long to have the past back again.
