Ludwig Tieck Quotes

He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act.

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• When I took over the ministry for science and technology, our weather systems were in shambles. Nobody believed in the IMD. Nothing was in digital mode. I changed all that. We got automatic rain gauges, automatic weather stations, Doppler radars.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Rain

• At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Age
  • Young
  • Very

• I absolutely welcome a full investigation into the for-profit schools because I think a majority of them are predatory.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Think
  • Because
  • Welcome

• I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Movie
  • Winning
  • Look

• 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.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Happy
  • Eyes
  • Blues

• When you know your intention, you are in a position to choose the consequences that you will create for yourself. When you choose an intention that creates consequences for which you are willing to be responsible, that is a responsible choice.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Yourself
  • Choice
  • Choose

• There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Work
  • Change
  • Consciousness

• I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Right
  • Bird
  • Middle

• I really love the '90s. I love the music from then for sure, and to go back to New York then would be a really wonderful thing.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Music
  • Love
  • New York

• Out-marriage is an issue religious groups have been wrestling with for some time. Of course men and women fall in love. Of course it's not always convenient to their respective cultural and spiritual norms.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Marriage
  • Religious
  • Spiritual

• My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • World
  • Thinking

• I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Different
  • Want

• I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Long
  • Love
  • May

• By the law of averages, there has to be life elsewhere. The universe is so huge, and I don't think God would have created this whole big huge cosmos and just say there's only going to be life on Earth, and that's it.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Life
  • God
  • Earth

• It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Good
  • Me
  • Reputation

• I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • People
  • Long
  • Line

• But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Good
  • School
  • American

• I remember being a kid, and if you had to pee, well, you had to hold it until the commercial break. Then you rushed, and hopefully, if you're going to the kitchen for a snack, you'll be back before so you don't miss a line. If your sister sneezed or was talking over a line, there was no way of knowing what that line was or what the joke was.

  

  America Ferrera
  • Remember
  • Sister
  • Kitchen

• Kate Winslet for Steve Jobs movie, 2015 is the darling. If you wanna be the king you gotta kill the king. I think Charlotte Rampling is the dark horse on this one. No one does classic beauty better than her.

  

  Bun B
  • Kate Winslet
  • Steve Jobs movie
  • Charlotte Rampling

• Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

  

  Alvin Plantinga
  • Faith
  • Seen
  • Hoped

• A day without laughter is like living in darkness; you try to find your way around, but you can't see clearly.

  

  Emily Mitchell
  • Laughter
  • Darkness
  • Find A Way

• I had no choice. It was just something that happened. I was always looking for ways to act out, and I got a camera and it acted out for me.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Choice
  • Act
  • Camera

• He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act.

  

  Ludwig Tieck
  • Wisdom
  • Stupid
  • Act