Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine.
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.
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We are creating the new Atlanta, along with Rich Homie Quan and Young Thug. We bring the spaghetti, put it in the bowl, mix it together, and we make the new Atlanta.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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There is a daily discussion with our servants about the price of food and the number of loaves: a conference with our presbyters to consider the sins of our people is a very rare occurrence.
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I'm a fast learner. I may not run as fast as I used to, but I think I still learn as fast.
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Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.
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Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.
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John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
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Have the pride of the brown girl and know that you'll figure out your own beauty in time.
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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We all do stupid things.
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Finishing races is important, but racing is more important.
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Oh God, to think that you only fall in love once in your entire life is such a depressing thought.
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I have done the company lifestyle for 16 years, and ballet has changed.
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I could live a thousand years and still not know everything, still not have tried anything.
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Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
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Die Technologie enthüllt das aktive Verhalten des Menschen zur Natur, den unmittelbaren Produktionsprozesss seines Lebens, damit auch seiner gesellschaftlichen Lebensverhältnisse und der ihnen entquellenden geistigen Vorstellungen.
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I had a very feminist mother who exposed me not only to Planned Parenthood - my first job - but also to Betty Friedan and Colette and Naomi Wolf.
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Everything is politically correct nowadays.
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Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature.
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There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.
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I make music that surfers dig, but, like Brian Wilson in the Beach Boys, I'm the dude who never gets on the board.
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A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine.
