Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
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I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
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The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
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I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
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I have my own past and my own personality. I'm going to relate to the material in a completely different way than somebody else might.
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Yes, I'm a 'Twi-hard.' I became obsessed. Absolutely obsessed. I didn't watch television, I didn't go to the cinema. My friends would ring and say: 'What are you doing?' And I would say: 'I've just got to finish this chapter.'
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You get into this situation, performing for T.V., where you have to speak with utter sincerity. It's just like the radio. You have to say it like you mean it, even though the thing you're saying is actually planned out.
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Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.
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I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.
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Not only do we have to change the food we eat... we have to educate people about what they can eat appropriately.
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The real reason for his attitude lay deeper. Essentially, Gloucester and the barons of his party were opposed to peace because they felt war to be their occupation. Behind them were the poorer knights and squires and archers of England, who, unconcerned with rights or wrongs, were 'inclined to war such as had been their livelihood.'
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I that have loved thee thus before thou fadest,My faith shall wax, when thou art in thy waning.The world shall find this miracle in me,That fire can burn when all the matter's spent.
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It's Friday the 13th. my favorite holiday. Keep it weird.
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Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.
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We are all made of air There's stars in my eyes and there's sun in my hair And I'm runnin' away, it makes me feel better
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No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.
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Our Garrick's a salad; for in him we seeOil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree!
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I sucked in school.
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I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn't have been very important.
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I pride myself in the fact that in the six months tour of Cinderella, I didn't take one show off.
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We say primarily that the priority of this struggle is class. That Marx and Lenin and Che Guevara and Mao Tse-Tung, and anybody else who ever said or knew or practiced anything about revolution, always said that a revolution is a class struggle.
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I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.
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(Shortly after Germany forced Denmark to sign a non-aggression pact in 1939) How nice. Now the Germans can sleep in peace, knowing that they will not be invaded by us.
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Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
