Karl Ludwig von Knebel Quotes
Sceptics are generally ready to believe anything, provided it is sufficiently improbable.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.
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I do realize that God has given me so many blessings in my life. I mean, not only with football, but with the family that He's blessed me with and the opportunity He's given me to grow up in a home that embraces God.
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When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
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Panama is a country that's been dealing with issues of identity since its very birth. It was born on Wall Street. It was born out of engineering construction. It was the canal. Because of the canal, the country was born, so the country has been divided into pro-canal and against-canal people for so long.
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I was in Congress for six months, and they put me on blood pressure medication. I flew helicopters in combat and I was fine, and I survived 13 months in recovery in the hospital... I got to Congress, and six months later I'm on blood pressure medication. Fourteen months later, they doubled the dosage!
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The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.
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I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your high school life.
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Privatization is more efficient and effective in some cases, but not in intelligence.
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I don't exercise.
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I want to be revered. I want to be an elder; I want to be an elderess.
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Each thought himself, especially since this last promotion, to be indispensably necessary to the formation of London society, and was comfortable in the conviction that he had thoroughly succeeded in life by acquiring the privilege of sitting down to dinner three times a week with peers and peeresses.
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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
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Listen to the Beatles' 'Things We Said Today.' Ringo Starr does not play a fill in the entire song. It doesn't need it. 'A Day In the Life' has gorgeous fills, but there, the song needs it. When I play on any record, I'm striving to get where Ringo is. You play what doesn't take you out of the song.
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I take the harsh criticism along with the compliments.
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In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.
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I'm always looking for a good role.
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After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
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In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.
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Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.
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Women need to become literary 'criminals', break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives.
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Sceptics are generally ready to believe anything, provided it is sufficiently improbable.
