Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.
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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
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I don't quite know how to put it into words, but I feel for the audience that I have; I know them.
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I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.
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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.
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It's been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it's been given to me. I wouldn't be anywhere without Victoria's Secret.
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'Life as a Dog' is when I really started to feel comfortable, like I had the due north on my compass.
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There are several authors who are also lawyers - and not only the ones who write legal thrillers. There are other attorneys who write romantic fiction, and I know of at least one who writes young adult books.
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Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.
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Master of the universe is every man's potential insight, cosmic potential.
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I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo.
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Facebook and Instagram are spiritual brothers.
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The actors I respect are the real character actors, who are the real chameleon actors that completely change from role to role. I love Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness and Gary Oldman. They tend to be British, I guess. People who really disappear and transform, I really like that.
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An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
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American music is a powerful ingredient in international music, and as much as it comes from within, it also comes from without.
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When we race in London a world record will be the last thing on our minds.
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Basically, we used to have a rule at 'Saturday Night Live' that you're not allowed to bring up 'The Simpsons' at the rewrite table, because 'The Simpsons' has done every joke there is. Every week there would be guys going, 'The Simpsons did that.' I go, 'C'mon.' And 'South Park,' too.
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So I just play the character, I play the lines.
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Happiness, in truth, may not be the fruit plucked by my action yet without action all fruit will die on the vine. I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. I will act now.
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I completely understand why a businessman would fire me from 'Saturday Night Live'. Because he was seeing Jay Leno kill 10 minutes a night, doing his monologue with wall-to-wall laughs and applause, then I do 10 minutes a week to, sometimes, breathtaking silence. He's just listening for the laughs.
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Mickey Mouse... is always there-he's part of my life. That really is something not everyone can call their claim to fame.
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I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.
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To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of any substance whatever.
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I've never so appreciated what actors do and how strange it is.
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Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.
