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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My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.
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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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Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
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The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.
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God will himself one day hold all humans, and all human governments, to account, but the church has the responsibility in the present to speak words of truth and judgment in advance of that final holding-to-account.
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
