Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes
To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
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I'm not going to roll back anything. Nothing is going to change with respect to reproductive rights.
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Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When I was a kid, I used to have to take the garbage out at night on Wednesdays. I lived out in the country. I'd take the garbage out, and I used to pretend that I was the only person in the whole world, except for one other person, and he was looking for me.
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What I would ask the Democrat Party is to put your plan on the table, because most people agree with the facts, and the facts are that Social Security is running out of money.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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I feel best when I am modestly dressed. It's a choice I make and am proud of; for me, I don't think I have to show skin to be beautiful.
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Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.
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A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.
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A high-quality public education can build much-needed skills and knowledge. It can help children reach their God-given potential. It can stabilize communities and democracies. It can strengthen economies. It can combat the kind of fear and despair that evolves into hatred.
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I don't think things have changed for me. Yes, I got a big contract, but my focus is still the same.
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I was surprised by how much I liked 'Hacksaw Ridge' and its depth.
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I'm the easiest person to make fun of.
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I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing.
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Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.
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Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
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After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.
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I really loved the 'Sopranos' but didn't have HBO. So someone would send me tapes of the show with three or four episodes. I would watch one episode and go: 'Oh my God, I've got to watch one more.' I'd watch the whole tape and champ at the bit for the next one.
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I am very highly appreciated in my country, and everybody seems to love me.
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When I started Teach For America, I wasn't trying to come up with an idea that would change the world. I was trying to solve a problem much closer to home: I was a senior in college, and I had no idea what I was going to do with my life!
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For the exploitation of human greed, they have devised comparison and competition. Right from childhood on, we are indoctrinated to compare and compete, and there is a word, a phrase: 'free and fair competition.'
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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The problem with most liberals - myself included - is we tend to think we're post-racial: that we've got a handle on things because we're not racists.
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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
