Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes
Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
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The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
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For 'Breaking Bad,' people were with Walter White for 99% of that show, even though that guy is a monster.
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The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
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Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.
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I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.
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I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction first, and then think about the style.
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Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.
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I don't believe in a lot of schmoozing and buttering up. Not that you don't become friends in work. But I think it's a misconception that you have to do a lot of hanging before you work.
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People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'
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I'm fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do evil. Not just the big things - the petty things that people do in order to make someone feel small, when it's so easy to do, and it hurts so much.
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Just personally, I've been attached to 'On the Road' since 2007 and it was the greatest thing in my life when I got cast in it. I couldn't believe it. When I was 17 and read the book, I looked it up on IMDb and it said that Francis Ford Coppola was going to direct it.
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Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
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I get paid to go work with people I've admired since forever, and I get to learn from them? What? I would pay to go sit and be a fly on the wall!
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Modern elites live in bubbles of liberal affluence like Ann Arbor, Brookline, the Upper West Side, Palo Alto, or Chevy Chase. These places used to have impoverished neighborhoods nearby, but the poor people got chased out by young singles living in group homes, hipsters, and urban homesteading gay couples.
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The Dutch are a very practical people.
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I think people are just incredibly depressed and hopeless about the prospects for change.
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My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.
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Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount.
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A lot of the songs on '2' are pretty personal, but even if I'm writing about something like that, I still tend to keep it pretty simple and open-ended. I like the idea of people listening to my album and it meaning something to me but maybe meaning something else to them.
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If you're playing a good guy, you show some darkness. If you're playing a dark guy, you show something different, like humor, that will mix it up and hopefully surpass the audience's expectations. What I'm battling all the time is complacency in the audience. I try to bring a little mystery to what might happen because that engages people more.
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Generally speaking, people who know me will tell you that my public persona is not that different from my private persona.
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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them to choose you. My music is insular - I can choose that.
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Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
