Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.
Quotes to Explore
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Track and field was very big when I was growing up.
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Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them.
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If we slide into a pattern of just thinking about today, we'll end up reacting to yesterday instead of shaping something more constructive in the world.
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I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.
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The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want.
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Supporting causes with whatever we do can be effective.
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I don't deny that I had a very privileged upbringing, but my parents and that town maintained a sense of normalcy that I think many people find hard to achieve, and I am so grateful for that.
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I know too that the only reason we have got any cooperation at all out of Iraq is because of the credible threat of force.
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There's nothing glamorous about being dead.
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I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.
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I've got this reputation for shooting one take which is a wonderful reputation to have but it's hard to live up to.
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The reason why you don't see people looking like me is because I don't encourage that. I encourage you to be you.
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The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.
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We're in an era where the demand is for immediate hits that are destined to become obsolescent. Six months later, everyone forgets the artist and the tune. It's become like a con job. Producers, engineers, lawyers and accountants all make money, but the artists don't.
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From the grasses in the field to the stars in the sky, each one is doing just that; and there is such profound peace and surpassing beauty in nature because none of these tries forcibly to transgress its limitations.
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Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.
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Life is less than nothing without love.
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Nothing makes us angrier than the fear that some pleasure is being enjoyed by others but forever denied to us.
