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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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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When you're never home and traveling, you don't play videogames.
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I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reforms, or Hindu-Muslim relations, or position of women, I can do it as it affects my characters as in 'A Suitable Boy.' I could only write about issues specifically through essays. But I'll do that only if I have something worthwhile to say.
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I used to be a Democrat, now I'm basically a Republican.
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Billy Pilgrim music is very emotional. It's one part the craft we learned from people like the Indigo Girls and R.E.M., and one part the Tom Waits craft, where you're trying to create a moment.
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An enlightened awareness is within each one of us, right at this moment.
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All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a blessing, not a misery, it must be for the only beloved who will never pass away.
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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.
