Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
Quotes to Explore
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.
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The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
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My personal philosophy is that people should be extremely selfish for the first half of their life and extremely unselfish for the second half because then they can do the most good.
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I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.
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I was lucky. My parents and teachers provided me with a wonderful and secure childhood where I always knew I was loved, valued, and listened to.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.
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I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.
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I tried to hostess... but they fired me after four days because I couldn't figure out how seating plans worked.
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The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.
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I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight.
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I'm an incredibly intelligent, insightful human being.
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I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past.
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I talk to myself quite a lot, and when things get stressful, I just tell myself to breathe.
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They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.
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As an artist, you want to play around with mediums and see if you can get the point across in different way.
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Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.
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Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.
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We often have an exaggerated sense of what nonprofits and governments are doing to help the poor, but the really inspiring thing is how much the poor are doing to help themselves.
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For a boy or girl, driving cars that they love is fun.
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Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
