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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I have no desire to enter politics. Because I am not suited for that.
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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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Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.
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Whether or not we are religious, respecting others should be seen as just as important as looking out for ourselves, yet it requires discipline to change our bad habits that cause pain to animals.
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We need to just study what other countries have done. There are examples of a strong partnership between the defence establishment and the private industry.
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When I had to bury my child, I probably didn't start grieving until a year and a half later.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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I put in work for my neighborhood. Hundreds of bills, measures, budget items, and hearings. I always tried to make it a point to stay late, to always run the longest hearings, to carry nearly the most bills. The tragedy was that of the 18 years I was in Sacramento, 16 years were under Republican governors.
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If I take two years off, I would want to fight as much as possible.
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Interest, say in mathematics, has usually been killed by routine teaching, exactly as the literary interest... has been killed...
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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?
