Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes
If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
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People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.
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I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
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R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.
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National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
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I look formidable.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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One of my biggest drawbacks is my inability to maintain my physique. I put on weight for 'Soodhu Kavvum' and never managed to shed it. Luckily, that look suited a few films, including 'Orange Mittai.'
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I can't live off the ego.
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If I could make albums quicker, I'd be on a roll wouldn't I? Everything just seems to take so much time. I don't know why. Time... evaporates.
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Fereydun, that's my dad's name. My grandmother, my dad's mom, when she was pregnant, she was dating a man from Persia, a Persian gentleman. It wasn't his child, but he was still very supportive and said, 'Hey, this is a great name,' and so it stuck. So that's what she named him.
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As a child, I lived in Germany at the Ramstein air force base, where my dad sang at a nightclub in Kaiserslautern. My parents couldn't afford a babysitter, so when I was, like, ten or 11, I would go with them to the bar until two in the morning.
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I don't know anywhere where the people are hungrier for education than South Sudan.
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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
