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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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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I like power and I like to use it.
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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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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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Even before I joined journalism, I knew that this is what I wanted to do. Tintin was an early inspiration.
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I think food is getting lighter and healthier because people eat out so often. It's about quality ingredients because that is the root of good food.
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One of the first courses I ever taught at Dartmouth was on the Bible as literature.
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I didn't even know 'Vogue' existed when I was growing up.
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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'
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I haven't had a big hit record in America since 1987.
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When I first started out I actually was trying to use music to promote feminist ideas and at certain points, anti-violence against women and girls-type causes I was involved in.
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NFL cheerleading is harder than most people think. They train up to six hours every day with games on Sundays. They gave me a great work ethic.
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I've seen Coach Saban over the years have to make a lot of tough decisions, and there's not one decision he doesn't make that he doesn't bounce ideas off the staff. To me, that's invaluable.
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To be perfectly honest, I follow football the way I follow television. I read about it.
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... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.
