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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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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Finishing races is important, but racing is more important.
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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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If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets.
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The properties of the air are such that it may become condensed or rarefied.
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Acting is a youthful profession.
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It's obvious that if you're going to play a character you need to amass information about that person and about their environment or their era that they're in and use as little or as much as necessary.
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Drag completely helps you explore your gender and allows you to do so in a freeing, kinda liberating way as well because you’re performing in front of an audience.
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My views are very fluctuating. I have very contradictory takes on the subject. Dating is easier, while marriage is hard work. You see your friends having early divorces, and on the other hand, you see your parents having a successful marriage.
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But the thing is, I was never looking at a strategic way of gaining fame. That's not why I'm doing this.
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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.
