Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
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When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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If I were to try to describe the way in which I write, the only word I would use without qualification is 'slowly.'
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There are so many Muslim women that feel like they don't fit society's standard of beauty. I just wanted to tell them it's OK to be different; being different is beautiful, too.
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Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
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If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.
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I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
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'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.
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I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.
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I equally love both, classic rock and hip-hop. I love all music, really, and I really use classic rock a lot. I'm heavily influenced by that melodically in my music. I can't really separate the two.
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We're not spokespeople, we're musicians.
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The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education; jobs; emotional health; physical health; and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government.
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To bring a child into the world that you cannot feed, clothe, house, and educate is the moral equivalent, in my opinion, of a drive-by shooting.
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I'm not a girl who sits home and knits, you know.
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Three things about water affect almost all of cooking. First are the hydrogen bonds, which is why it has an incredibly high boiling point. Another is that it's a polar molecule, so that it dissolves a lot of things, and there are things that won't mix with it. And then there's how much energy it takes to heat water.
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My kids are very special; they can bring a lot of surprise.
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I was born and raised in Louisiana - a small town called Ferriday, north of Baton Rouge.
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From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.
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As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.
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Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
