Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified.
Quotes to Explore
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov -
For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.
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There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
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I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.
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I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
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I decide my future. I decide what I want to do. Nobody else. If I decide this will be my last year, maybe it is. If I decide it will be my last contract, I decide that. Nobody else. So I will decide when the moment is there.
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I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.
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Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.
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My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
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I was a confident, outgoing little boy. If you're an only child, you're living in a very linguistically adult world, and you've got to keep up. So I did. Maybe I was slightly annoying.
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As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.
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Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's something to explain to a more mainstream audience, so you get these passionate writers who want to express their love for rap and hip-hop, which is cool.
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Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
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All too often, we do smart things only after exhausting every conceivable dumb thing we could have done.
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I've always been a huge fan of theatre and performance. The idea of just the human voice and just this night. Live music is the same. They're doing it for you right now. It's an amazing thing. And if you perform a story properly, it can be a transporting, too.
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What's important is you wake up in the morning and something doesn't exist, and when you finish you day's work something is in the world that wasn't there before.
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All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified.
