Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes
He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
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The nightmare of a film career, or at least the challenge of one, is that you're rarely going to get the opportunity to explore character because once people see you in one thing, you know, they want to see that again.
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So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.
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Nothing is ever for sure, but when something in love doesn't work from the beginning, it's never going to work. Don't push it.
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A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
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We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
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Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.
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The wisdom of God's Word is quite clear on believers being unequally yoked. And marrying someone who is not a Christian - who is not a daily disciple of Christ - is being unequally yoked, regardless of what their beliefs might be.
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Pakistan has accepted some security training from the CIA, but U.S. export restrictions and Pakistani suspicions have prevented the two countries from sharing the most sophisticated technology for safeguarding nuclear components.
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I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.
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My joints hurt. I'm slower. But I remember what it was like to run and play with the boys. I want to be one of the boys.
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In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India.
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I do worry about young people in the business who have experienced a lot of success and are punted around doing those manic publicity trails, when you don't really know who you are yet.
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Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.
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And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.
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It's dangerous to be anybody popular.
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I went to an Arts High School, so everyone there was kind of anti-clique, though they still happened. I guess I was in the theatre-dork clique. Not to be confused with the musical-theatre-dork clique.
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I always knew I belonged on the other side of the lens.
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So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it's so off the map and there's no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing.
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Connecting with the kids is a great joy for me. I love meeting them backstage or at a signing event. I am overwhelmed when I meet kids who struggle with terminal illnesses.
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No one of Lincoln's old acquaintances in this city ever heard of his conversion to Christianity by Dr. Smith or anyone else. It was never suggested nor thought of here until after his death.... I never saw him read a second of time in Dr. Smith's book on Infidelity. He threw at down upon our table - spit upon it as it were - and never opened it to my knowledge.
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The friends we have, these are choices that - unlike family, which we have no choice in, and I love my family, thank God - we've given ourselves, to some degree.
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He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
