Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.
Quotes to Explore
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I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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When you're bullied in high school, even if it's the smallest amount, or you're actually tortured, I feel like everybody carries that with them. They always think of that one person who treated them badly in high school.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.
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When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.
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Hurricane season routinely strikes the Caribbean harder than the U.S.
Charles B. Rangel -
We have little choice but to place a certain level of trust in scientists - even when it comes to the model-driven speculative discipline of climate change. And, need it be said, most scientists take great care in being honest, principled and precise.
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Every American, whether Democrat or Republican, agrees that job creation and affordable energy will be crucial to our economic turnaround.
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The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
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That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done.
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A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.
