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 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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My mom always knew I was going to be an actor because I was a ham from the very beginning, so she would push me toward it, which is really unconventional for Indian families to do.
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Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
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'I'm still glad that we didn't shake their hands. They were whiners and criers. Piss on them.'
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In terms of me being a Christian, going to Israel was really cool. Going to the West Bank, Bethlehem, floating in the Dead Sea - that was great for me.
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States that scrap their state-run Obamacare exchanges are admitting they've wasted millions of dollars in federal grants. It's only fair that states have to pay American taxpayers and the federal government back for their total incompetence.
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The Sin Washer had died centuries ago, and His legacy seemed often to be in the accumulation of connections and power more than the distribution of emotional or spiritual ease. She kept that thought to herself. Wisdom came in many forms, and silence was often the most useful.
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
