Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes
The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
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I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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I would rather be on the set than doing anything.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
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The European Union will never see America, or an American president, as a risk.
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For many older Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, a lifetime of discrimination has undermined their right to a retirement with dignity.
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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
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My name is Natasha Trethewey, and I was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1966, exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1866.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.
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Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
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You learn the most from life's hardest knocks.
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The most precious resource we have is time.
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I travel the world, and I can see in Toronto the cooking is very personal. These people cook with their hearts.
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If people try to cut sugar out completely, they often splurge later. That isn't a good idea.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
