Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.
Quotes to Explore
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
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It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.
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Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.
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Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.
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I like power and I like to use it.
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Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
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The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.
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What seems like a crazy idea today eventually grows. It's a 'with hindsight' thing. One day, someone will turn around and say, 'That was genius.'
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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Just for the record, I personally do agree with some of the sentiments of Rabbi Meir Kahane. I think he was right about certain things, wrong about other things, but I have absolutely nothing, no association whatsoever with Kahane Chai leaders.
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Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities - not something that they chose.
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The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are no independent doctors' offices or neighborhood clinics, so people have to go to the hospital for every health care need.
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By mid-morning, I take a break from my novel and work on my Sunday Style column, which is about pop culture and what I find on the web. I usually start writing it at the beginning of the week and give it a couple of days to marinate before I return to it.
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For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work.
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The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
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I grew up as a baseball player, and given my modest size, it was always clear that I would end up playing in the infield.
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It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
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Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
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Humans impart meaning and purpose to almost all aspects of life. This sense of meaning and purpose gives us a road map for how to live a good life. This guidance emerges spontaneously from the interactions of human beings living in societies and thinking together about how best to get along. It doesn't require a god or sacred text.
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Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.
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... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.
