Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
Quotes to Explore
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
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As you get older, and this is a young man's game, and people say, 'Well, there's no way I can keep up running the way I'm running; there's no way my arm is going to stay as strong as it is.' It's the challenge of trying to stay in my tip-top shape year in and year out so I can keep playing the way I want to play.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.
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It was my very good fortune to find a mentor, Clay Felker, who started my career at the 'New York Magazine' as a freelance writer when I had to quit my job at the 'Herald Tribune' to stay home with my young daughter.
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When everything is going well, the role of the state in the economy should be limited. When we are in a crisis, it's different.
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I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
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I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.
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I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
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I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.
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We talk about quantum weirdness and things being in two places at once, but it all involves atoms and molecules, stuff we don't normally interact with.
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Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.
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I didn't really like reading much before I did 'The Golden Compass'. But then my teacher told me to read it. And I thought, 'Oh God, I'm going to have to read a whole book by myself!' It's not that I couldn't read, it's just that I didn't really like books very much. But the book that she lent me I really enjoyed.
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Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.
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The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
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The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles.
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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How can an article about me or the Batman be the true story when I am not consulted or interviewed?
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Smartphones just take so much of our personal time. We are always busy with the stuff on our smartphones, instead of making eye contact and being in the moment.
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The attempt to regulate relations between people too closely, by means of the law, in the name of an abstraction such as equality, leads to both absurdity and cruelty. The British are fast turning themselves into a nation of slaves, where even the slave-masters are not free.
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It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
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If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
