Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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Barberries, or zereshk, are tiny dried red fruit with a tremendously sharp flavour. They come from Iran, where they're used to add freshness to rice and chicken dishes.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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I still have a young attitude.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
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Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
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I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
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I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.
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If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.
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I've always thought photography is not so much of an art form but a way of communicating and passing on information.
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You not only do you appreciate the sacrifices people have made and the hours they've kept and the soccer games they missed and the birthday parties, but I also had a lot of young people who came in here [to White House], and this probably, you know, echoes with you, in your own experience, you were young when you got here.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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In the whole of geophysics there is probably hardly another law of such clarity and reliability as this—that there are two preferential levels for the world’s surface which occur in alternation side by side and are represented by the continents and the ocean floors, respectively. It is therefore very surprising that scarcely anyone has tried to explain this law.
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In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
