Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes
What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
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This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.
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Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.
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I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.
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'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
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I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.
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Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
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Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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Romney still enjoys the Republicans' traditional advantage among voters who are veterans, but the Obama campaign is confident it can chip away at that.
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I have no desire to enter politics. Because I am not suited for that.
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What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.
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The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.
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I don't really believe in evil at all.
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We always learn more from the losing than the winning.
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Success is not built on what we accomplish for ourselves. Its foundation lies in what we do for others.
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The good is the beautiful.
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My father prayed because he had a good friend with whom to share the problems of the day.
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I am so romantic about Gypsies. They're not allowed to do anything until they get married. So they all get married really young, at sixteen.
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I kind of want to get the music back on a road it hasn't been on for a while. I want to promote the arts as part of the American diet.
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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
