Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
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It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I had an idea on piano for different songs, and we just married them together. We bounce things off each other constantly and kind of massage all these ideas into a three and a half minute pop song.
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Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
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We have four beautiful children and some wonderful memories.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
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I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
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I was signed at 19 years old to a major label, and dropped by the time I was 22.
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Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.
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Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.
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I need to end up with someone who is strong, intelligent, independent, someone I really admire - sensitive, sensuous, warm, a sense of humor.
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My first gig was a Corn Pops commercial. I did the first Vanilla Coke campaign. A Juicy Fruit commercial paid my bills for years.
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I found L.A. much less responsive to the name Juilliard than New York was. In New York, that name actually means something. People will look up from their desks when you walk in. In L.A. it's, 'Oh yeah, that's a music school. What do you play?'
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Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You need to construct an airtight case.
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Whenever you hear a discussion about the short-term swings in any given stock's price, your immediate thought should be whether it matters to why you are investing.
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Ray Bradbury has a vacation house in Palm Springs, California, in the desert at the base of the Santa Rosa mountains. It's a Rat Pack-era affair, with a chrome-and-turquoise kitchen and a small swimming pool in back.
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One of the most important things, actually, when you're playing on grass, is to move.
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David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.
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The problem is, when you're making an animated movie, the studio has an illusion in their minds - and it's really not true - that because it's a drawing, it can be changed at any time.
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I have never met a feminist who didn't have a father.
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Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife.
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Sometimes I'll go with a long hijab, or sometimes I'll wear my scarf and go somewhat business-y with a blazer. Every day is something new.
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I think I have met nearly all the Laureates in Economics. Among the few I haven't met, I suppose I'd most like to meet Ronald Coase because of his legendary power to persuade his colleagues of the validity of the Coase Theorem.
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Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.
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Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
