Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
In general admittedly the Wise of all times have always said the same thing, and the fools, that is to say the vast majority of all times, have always done the same thing, i.e. the opposite; and so it will remain in the future.
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
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Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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If you're going to make a sequel to 'Sicario', you have to - you know, you've got to go beat a brand new path.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.
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These are moments in your life to be cherished; they don't come around that often. To be flying around in a 'Game of Thrones' jet, to be greeted by massive enthusiasts.
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Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.
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From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
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You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
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I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
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You always hear about delegation, but people make the mistake of delegating and not following up. I give authority, but I stay in touch. Otherwise it doesn't work.
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I'm probably the only novelist who has ever written about political fugitives who actually knew a lot about them, had contact with them, and had a realistic notion of how they survived.
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No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.
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Invitat culpam qui peccatum praeterit
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In a way, certain sections of the media always wanted to knock me because I had captained my country and been skipper at Old Trafford. It was all a bit odd really.
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It's your flaws, not your strengths, that go down in the depths of your books. You're exposed, like dreaming you're naked in a public building.
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In general admittedly the Wise of all times have always said the same thing, and the fools, that is to say the vast majority of all times, have always done the same thing, i.e. the opposite; and so it will remain in the future.
