Karl Ludwig von Knebel Quotes
Sceptics are generally ready to believe anything, provided it is sufficiently improbable.Karl Ludwig von Knebel
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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.
Walter Lippmann -
It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
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.
Vince Carter -
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.
Sam Bradford -
When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
Parvesh Cheena -
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
W. Somerset Maugham
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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.
Edgar Ramirez -
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!
Tammy Duckworth -
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.
Salma Hayek -
I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your high school life.
Vanessa Minnillo -
Privatization is more efficient and effective in some cases, but not in intelligence.
Valerie Plame -
I don't exercise.
Jackee Harry
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I want to be revered. I want to be an elder; I want to be an elderess.
Frances McDormand -
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.
Anthony Trollope -
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
Anais Nin -
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.
Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -
I take the harsh criticism along with the compliments.
Matt Lauer -
In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.
Donald Norman
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I kind of waited for opportunities to be handed to me. I think I was lazy, and when things didn't go right, I just said, 'Oh well.'
Jennifer Coolidge -
'Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise.
C. S. Lewis -
The best way to get to know any bunch of people is to go and listen to their music.
Woody Guthrie -
People will accomplish anything if they believe the goal is worth it - they are worth it and that they are capable of achieving it - and that's exactly what my 'Maximize Your Life' show will do.
Jillian Michaels -
Sceptics are generally ready to believe anything, provided it is sufficiently improbable.
Karl Ludwig von Knebel