Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.
Quotes to Explore
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When a pointed question is beaten back with an attack or threat of, 'How dare you...' it's a reliable signal that deception is involved. Trump is a master at this.
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It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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I think the best thing I can say about it - and I think the best thing you can say about anything, really - is that 'The Motorcycle Diaries' made me feel like my home was bigger; it made me feel at home anywhere in Latin America.
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It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.
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I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.
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I am still the same person doing the same science. Why are people so impressed when some academy in Sweden gives an award?
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What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?
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I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than the world of the kitchen sink.
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没有一个人民的军队，便没有人民的一切。
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It is all very well to sit back and hope for 'the best in this best of all possible worlds' but it's the course of personal and national suicide. Unless there is a vast alteration in man's civilization as it stumbles along today, man will not be here very long and none of us. Times must change.
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I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump all the time.
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I have not been without battle. Bitter affliction was frequent Between me and my cousins. Frequent trials fell Between me and my fellow-countrymen. There was frequent contention Between me and the wretched.
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In countries around the world, people spend more money on food because they know how precious it is.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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I have to see a definitive cut of the film before I even start thinking about the music, I tell the director what my feelings are and what I would like to do. He accepts what I say or discusses it or destroys it. Eventually, we have to find a compromise.
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Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless.
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No matter what happens, one should not stop dreaming... dreams do come true.
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Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.
