Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

Je weniger einer, in Folge objektiver oder subjektiver Bedingungen, nötig hat, mit den Menschen in Berührung zu kommen, desto besser ist er daran.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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• I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.

  

  Vanilla Ice
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• If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.

  

  Tamron Hall
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  • Always
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• You don't have to do everything from scratch. Nobody wants to make puff pastry!

  

  Ina Garten
  • You
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• Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.

  

  Wendell Pierce
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• The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

  

  Irwin Shaw
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• Not all offers I get are exciting and inspiring. I would rather sit at home and not work than jump into mediocrity for the sake of just moving ahead. If it's a good script, I would sacrifice my personal time and grab it.

  

  Rani Mukerji
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• Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Value
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• I want people to get inspired by public space - their space. People tend to forget about it because they do the daily thing, but putting up these sculptures breaks the routine.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • People
  • Up
  • Space

• I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.

  

  Larry Rivers
  • Always
  • Artist
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• If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Know
  • Doing
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• I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.

  

  Kate Smith
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• Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• With President Obama, we will move America forward.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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• When I first filmed things, they were always slightly awkward.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Always
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• America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce in the world.

  

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• My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

  

  Imelda Marcos
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• A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.

  

  Anthony de Mello
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  • Practice

• Yes books are valuable. But not reading of books will take the place of a daily, candid, honest examination of what one has recently done, and what one is about to do - of a steady looking at one's self in the face (disconcerting though the sight may be).

  

  Arnold Bennett
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• Once you were a child. Once you knew what inquiry was for. There was a time when you asked questions because you wanted answers, and were glad when you had found them. Become a child again, even now... You have gone wrong. Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
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• There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming, it systematically forces tens of billions of animals to suffer in ways that would be illegal if they were dogs, it is a decisive factor in the development of swine and avian flus, and so on.

  

  Jonathan Safran Foer

• Some people just wanted to blow it all to hell, animal, vegetable and mineral. They wanted a Vietnam they could fit into their car ashtrays.

  

  Michael Herr
  • People
  • Animal
  • Vietnam

• Je weniger einer, in Folge objektiver oder subjektiver Bedingungen, nötig hat, mit den Menschen in Berührung zu kommen, desto besser ist er daran.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer