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Karl Jaspers Quotes

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: psychologist
Nationality: german
Birth: February 23, 1883 - February 26, 1969

Topics

Life Work Birthday Philosophy Made

I've traveled around the country and I read local newspapers and all of that, and it's a sad, sad thing to go from city to city and see the small newspapers and they're tiny. They're tiny not only in size but also in scope.

Sad City Small Traveled Country Go

I walked the streets of New York; I would feel the presence of Daredevil. I would see him up on the rooftop. What you are doing in your life, you start to see in your book. It all starts to merge together.

Life Together New York Start Book

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

Calm Duck Always Underneath Surface

I may not be the number one movie star, or my films might not be doing too good. I am grateful for what life has offered me. I have got a great family, parents are together, have a great sister, I get to holiday. All these things make me grateful towards life, for everything. I always say - have an attitude of gratitude.

Life Family Good Attitude Gratitude

Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder.

Morning Wake Up Story Think You

I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive.

Positive Focus Think You Dark Want

I don't want the United States to be Athens on the Potomac.

Rodney Frelinghuysen

Want Athens United United States

I don't know whether it is important to study science at a young age, though current thinking emphasises the need.

Age Science Thinking Know Young

My wife says I don't listen when she talks. But when people talk, I'm in my own world. I think - always thinking.

Wife People World Think Thinking

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Michel de Montaigne

Children Sports Serious Actions Most

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

Michelangelo Antonioni

Freedom Problems Fighting Bag Trying

I think the person creates the artist. And I think when you get lost within your person, your artistry get lost, too. It's like in 'Birdman.' Because the artist inside you is attached to your soul. And when you're not attached to yourself anymore, the soul goes away. You can't let that happen.

Monica Bellucci

Soul Yourself Think You Artist Lost

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