Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.
Quotes to Explore
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I adored my mom. I thought she was the best. I loved her very much.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.
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I understand that the tendency of foreign countries in recent years has been to establish particularly close relations with one or two others among all the countries which have general relations. In time of peace, they make secret treaties in advance, and in wartime, they aid one another with military provisions and armaments.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
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I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
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In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
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Wherever you go at SXSW, there you are standing in line. Or watching other people stand in line.
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Life sometimes doesn't work out exactly as we plan or hope for.
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If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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If 10 years ago I was told I'd be where I am now, I would've been pretty happy.
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When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.
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I have made it a habit not to speculate over the psychological state of our elected leaders.
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I'm interested in clothes in the way that other people are interested in cars.
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When you are angry, you make bad decisions in direct proportion to the level of your anger.
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Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldn't have to worry about some squeaky-shoed librarian turning the lights off on you or gauging your literacy by reading the names on your book spines, and there wouldn't be a single other patron. The whole place would hum with a library's peace, filtering softly over you like white bars of light.
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Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.
