Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes
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Rock music is not meant to be perfect.
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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Before I started surfing, I don't even know if I would have dived into the water at night alone. It was still scary.
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You never grow out of high school sadly.
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If I'm teaching girls that do love to make cookies and do love fashion - that they can use math as a part of that - you think that's me saying, come on girls you belong in the kitchen, you belong shopping? Or, do you think it's me showing them how math is part of all their life, even the part they thought it had nothing to do with?
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Oh my God, Nicole is killed? Oh my God, she is dead?
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The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.
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Getting to the point where I was ready to write a book has been about a 20-year journey of being, really honestly, too afraid to try - which I think is pretty common for people who are trying to write a large piece of fiction.
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We are a motivated team, and there is nothing that can stop us from winning the title. Even if I had lost, my teammates would have made up for it.
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The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
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I sometimes feel nervous because I give stupid answers to certain pointless questions. It happens in Turkish as much as in English. I speak bad Turkish and utter stupid sentences.
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I am insecure... because I have to think about what I look like every day.
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If you don't feel good in it, don't wear it, because you'll never look good.
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It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.
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Sometimes I feel 15; other times, I feel fully grown and mature and handling all my business. It can waver from day to day, hour to hour.
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The first thing I do in the editing room is the 'radio edit,' where you listen to the dialogue and don't even look at the visuals. The rhythm, the music of the comedy, has to work.
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I think Bob Dylan's a good songwriter. I think he's the best songwriter in the world probably.
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Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?
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Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
