Konrad Lorenz Quotes

'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer.

Konrad Lorenz

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• I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.

  

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• Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.

  

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• I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.

  

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• Food is fuel and not a solution to anything other than giving your body nutrients. I love chocolate like the next girl, but it's not going to change my situation.

  

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• The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!

  

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• I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.

  

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• I don't mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn't criticize myself. I think people should have fun, and have a good time, and enjoy the luck that we have to be lazy and dwell in consumerism. But I think that it's a balance. And our job as actors is empathy.

  

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• We know that flat and non-hierarchical systems use information best. I've tried to do that with my own company because it works better that way. And society at large will work better as well if we can get rid of these old institutions and hierarchies. New innovations like the block chain can make this possible.

  

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• Controversies are part and parcel of making a big film.

  

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• Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.

  

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• I just wanted to show people - maybe I'm wrong - that I can still really sing. I can sing better than I ever have before. My intonation is way better, my timing, my phrasing - there's a lot more expression; I feel it's a more lived-in, soulful voice.

  

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• The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

  

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• A fellow that makes no figure in company, and has a mind as narrow as the neck of a vinegar-cruet.

  

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• But by virtue of our baptism, Peter Akinola and I are brothers in Christ and one day we are going to be in heaven together, so we might as well learn to get along here because we will have to get along there. God won't have it any other way.

  

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• One thing will always secure heaven for us-the acts of charity and kindness with which we have filled our lives. We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

  

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• 'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer.

  

  Konrad Lorenz
  • Heaven