Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.
Quotes to Explore
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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Now that we have a true leader who stands for family and has a loving relationship with his wife, maybe black men and women will follow their example. We have a lot of faith and trust in President Obama because his integrity thus far has shown us a new level of manhood, fatherhood and husbandhood.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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I like being unconventional.
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.
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I am an artist who works with Lego.
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Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
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In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.
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I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.
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I can't marry my way into citizenship like straight people can. I can get married in the state of New York where I live, but because of the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal government, which hands out visas, won't recognize my marriage.
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Chinese people like to do things with a low profile; they do not like to expose their wealth.
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I'm a very laid-back person.
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The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy - even beyond the market opportunities - that's something that appropriately ought to be done.
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I'm going to continue to work to be the best player in the world, and whenever that doesn't sound fun to me anymore, that's when it's over.
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For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.
