Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes, Writing Quotes, Interesting Quotes

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.

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Error sometimes supplies the surprise that makes life interesting.

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Geoffrey's personal style was very different from mine. He has a lovely speaking voice, a quiet speaking voice. But at Cabinet we always reported on foreign affairs - we always had this quiet voice. It was so quiet sometimes I had to say 'speak up'. And he gave it in a way which wasn't exactly scintillating. And you know, foreign affairs are interesting. They affect everything that happened to our own way of life, and they are exciting. And so we just diverged.

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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times and are not afflicted by personal immunity.

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A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others.

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Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

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Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

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One interesting thing about greed is that although the underlying motive is to seek satisfaction, the irony is that even after obtaining the object of your desire you are still not satisfied. The true antidote of greed is contentment.

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It was a very interesting challenge [Heihei role] because he's limited to rooster-y, chicken-type noises, and he goes along on the whole adventure. It just becomes, "If that's how you express yourself, go for it.

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Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.

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Knowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that's interesting.

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To the wingless a more interesting phenomenon is their (W/E Egg) dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.

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I'm not particularly a career-oriented guy. I'm lucky. I can make really interesting films much of the time with interesting people yet be anonymous, have a private life. But, I'd like to have the choice of the better roles.

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It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.

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Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.

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What the universe will manifest when you are in alignment with it is a lot more interesting than what you try to manifest

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In war, truth is often the first casualty.

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Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far asblather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material.

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Nothing remains interesting where anything may happen.

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We rarely use much debt and, when we do, we attempt to structure it on a long-term fixed rate basis. We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet. This conservatism has penalized our results but it is the only behavior that leaves us comfortable, considering our fiduciary obligations to policyholders, depositors, lenders and the many equity holders who have committed unusually large portions of their net worth to our care.

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