Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
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I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.
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My father loves people. No matter what their race, no matter what their position in life, he treated everyone with kindness and love and respect. And that was instilled in me just by watching him.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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All of us grow.
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There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
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When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
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Every label thinks, when they sign someone, 'This is the perfect pedigree to sign. They're cute, they can sing, they can dance, et cetera.' And they say to the public, 'Here, this is what you're gonna like.' But you might say, 'No, I don't like that!' You'll probably say 'no' many more times than you'll say 'yes!'
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I think you can tell when someone is being dishonest as an actor.
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It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.
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Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.
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I love playing strong women, even if they're nuts.
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Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate.
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I have this weird tropism for islands. Take me to an island as far from New York as I can possibly go.
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A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.
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The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
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The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
