Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes
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Marylanders are among the nation's hardest working and most educated people. We have universities and schools that are among the best in the nation.
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Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
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I'm shy. I am. I mean, if I get around, you know, in a room of a bunch of people especially I - you know, I don't know or - it takes me a while to warm up. I'm - and the real me, I'm not as witty as, you know, as the comic Wanda. The comic, she's had time to work on some things.
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There are so many immigrant-led success stories in the United States, and the fact that it's gotten so much harder for educated folks to stay here is really unfortunate.
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I was a big music fan, but I never bought a bunch of records or was very educated, I guess, on who was who or what was what.
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You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.
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What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen.
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My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.
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If you are moneyed or educated, you will get a different sentence than someone who is not.
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My parents have always had a great sense of humor. And I really appreciate good humor in songs, witty lyrics that sneak up on you and then you listen again, and say: 'That's so funny.' John Prine's songs have always had this really witty tone.
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I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.
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My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well.
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Silence in love bewrays more woeThan words, though ne’er so witty:A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity.
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Usually when people see me, they see me as more of the soft-spoken one rather than being the witty, smart-tongued character.
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I often feel I'm a disappointment to people because they expect me to be the guy in the books. When I sit next to someone at a dinner party I can see they expect me to be quick and witty, and I'm not at all.
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There's a real emphasis on being witty in Scotland, even in crime novels.
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The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there.
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To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
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Diversity can't be a fashionable thing: it should be here to stay.
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I think any time you can go after an audience that isn't built in, that's the job.
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I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four legs so that they don't rock back and forth.
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Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked.
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In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming.
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Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.
