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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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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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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I was born and raised in Louisiana - a small town called Ferriday, north of Baton Rouge.
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I don't think there is any harm in it, but I tell you, there are demons and there are evil people in the world, and you post a picture like that and some cultist gets hold of it or a coven and they begin muttering curses against an unborn child. ... You never know what somebody's going to do.
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The Riviera isn't only a sunny place for shady people.
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Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
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I am sometimes accused of being oversensitive about unemployment. I do not believe that that is possible, certainly not for anyone who lived through the 1930s and saw the political consequences of high unemployment throughout Western Europe and what happened in 1939.
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Being part of a team that belongs to everyone makes me feel good and at peace with myself.
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Leaders may inspire, but only when the people decide to act does the leader's vision become a movement.
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The next best thing to gambling and winning is gambling and losing.
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The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.
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Without sounding overly sentimental about the process, I'd say trying to describe how you tend to conceive of a book is like describing how you tend to fall in love.
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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
