Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
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I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.
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I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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Peter Dinklage is one of my oldest friends from New York!
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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I feel like the word 'mom' and 'supermom' should be synonymous. When you are a mom, you are a superhero.
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It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.
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All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.
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I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
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First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.
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Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power.
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It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.
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I'm a huge 'Harry Potter' fan. When you're acting, it's a fantasy already, maybe it's the costumes, I love it. It's so fun.
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I think what you'll find is overall, overwhelmingly, evangelicals would prefer me to Barack Obama.
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A process which led from the amœba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress – though whether the amœba would agree with this opinion is not known.
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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
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Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all our leverages with patience and wisdom, without provocation and slogans that can give pretexts to the enemies.
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
