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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In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.
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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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The people in New York want to achieve something; the people in L.A., they just want to achieve success.
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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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A black man of my generation born in the late 1960s is more than twice as likely to go to prison in his lifetime then a black man of my father's generation. I was born after the Voting Rights Act, after the Civil Rights Act, after the Fair Housing Act.
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The fields stretch out in long unbroken rows. We walk aware of what is far and close. Here distance is familiar as a friend. The feud we kept with space comes to an end.
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Illnesses can be seen as impending actions representing actual blockages of energy, ation turned into channels that are not to the best interests of the personality. The energies appear concentrated and turned inward, affecting the whole system.
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It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character.
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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.
