Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
...this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways is-nothing.
Quotes to Explore
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh.
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.
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Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
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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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Growing up, I think I always had a sense of art: a sense that there was poetry in the world. I didn't know where I was going to find it. I didn't know where I was going to fit in, that was for sure. But I kept moving forward. There wasn't a future in anything other than movement.
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The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
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The hard-core Left loves ridiculing Christians who believe scripture that says, 'God created the heaven and the earth.' They say that it's anti-science to believe that an almighty God would do such a thing.
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Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.
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I love the feeling that you get when you can really laugh with a man and be natural and not always think that there's a sexual element going on. For me, flirting with a man means making fun of myself and trying to open myself and be very unpretentious.
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As an actor, you want a director who makes you feel comfortable in a place that you can really create and try a lot of different things.
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We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake. To preserve civilisation, we must deal scientifically with the brute element, using only genuine biological principles.
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Even though we look at the past through the lens of distance and think that because people are wearing different clothes or have different technology, their experiences are different, it's all the same, right? Our experience of love and sex and death are the same in any time period.
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With recidivism algorithms, for example, I worry about racist outcomes. With personality tests for hiring, I worry about filtering out people with mental health problems from jobs. And with a teacher value-added model algorithm used in New York City to score teachers, I worry literally that it's not meaningful. That it's almost a random number generator.
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To me, this degree was an acknowledgment of my work in music.
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...this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways is-nothing.
