Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
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The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.
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I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.
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You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.
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Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.
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The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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The only thing that I discovered very early on is that, even though we might change schools and cities and towns and states, the books in the library were the same. They had the same covers. They had the same characters. I could go and visit those people in the library as if I knew them.
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After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
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If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career.
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It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.
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My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.
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I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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There's depth in my comedy.
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
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I look up to Andrea Boccelli and Sarah Brightman. The best part about 'America's Got Talent' was performing with her!
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Everybody's part of the greater whole and skepticism and virtue are a part of that.
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I just know that the one thing that we all have in common is challenges. No one lives a challenge free life.
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Horror films are the ones that pay the bills, and historically, they have shown that they are good investments. They helped Universal survive with that initial splash of horror films in the 1930s and '40s. And horror films kept New Line alive with the 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' series.
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I get to have Sunday lunch at my mum's, pick my nephew up from school now and then: it's a very normal life.
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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
