Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of both storytelling and jokes.
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You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.
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Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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I think I was more or less, convinced of that by just the press, the US press. By people who were pressuring you, saying that you gotta beat the Russian's, if you don't win anything else, win the Russian meet and so forth.
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You have to take over your town in order to take over your city.
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When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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They're dressing like in the 50's when they come out to the shows, and many of them have vintage cars.
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You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!
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None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
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As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my fiction: childhood, nature, sexuality, transformation. I realized that it wasn't by accident that I was drawn to their narrative structure and motifs.
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I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed.
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Nothing is ever enough for me. I'm always thinking what is wrong, what needs to be fixed.
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Half of Google's revenue comes from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing its search technology to companies like Yahoo.
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We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.
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Obviously, I got very lucky that even though I lost my mother, I lost her later in life, but it's still had a profound effect on me.
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The TV mini-series is kind of a lost genre because the networks have given up on it.
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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
