Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes
Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.
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I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.
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Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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People always ask me, 'Is there a rivalry between the Nickelodeon and Disney stars? Do you guys hate each other?' Like everyone has to be on one team. If you're a Selena Gomez fan, you can't be a Victoria Justice fan. We're both half-Latin, and people put us in the same category.
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To assume that someone's views are invariably influenced or shaped by his or her partner is lazy. It is an intellectual crutch we grope for when we do not have an effective counter to someone's argument.
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I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet' as the villain. I don't think of 'Travis Bickle' as the villain.
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After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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Schweitzer is where I found snowboarding; it will always have a special place in my heart and is a top-notch ski resort. It has some of the best bowl tree skiing in the world and breathtaking views of Sandpoint and Lake Pend Oreille.
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I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
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I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
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Although I come from a family who are Muslim - my mother is Egyptian, my father is Palestinian - my mother only puts a veil on her head when she has a bad hair day.
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I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.
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I'm always looking for perfection. Even after training and my coaches say I did good, I always think I could have done more.
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All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.
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I'm pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I have my own lab and printers, I can afford the luxury of going through the contact sheets for black-and-white, making up work prints, seeing them big, and honing them down.
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To me, the real opinion polls are the tangible facts: the growing creation of jobs, the number of planning permissions, the number of commercial vans being sold - the signs that the Irish people are regaining confidence.
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It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.
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When you have decided that a thing ought to be done and are doing it, never avoid bein seen doing it, though many shall form an unfavorable opinion about it. For if it is not right to do it, avoid doing the thing; but if it is right, why are you afraid of those who shall find fault wrongly?
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The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing.
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Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.
