Ludwig Tieck Quotes
He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act.
Ludwig Tieck
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I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper.
Sam Wyly
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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
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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
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To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
Beck
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A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.
Flann O'Brien
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I guess I'm quite practical. Or at least like to think I am.
Sam Heughan
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My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy
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Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.
Frank Moore Colby
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If we are going to achieve a real equality, the U.S. will have to adopt a modified form of Socialism.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I can’t accept 'our nervous age,' since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon or smelt; if a sturgeon makes a stupid mistake, it can only be one: to end up on a hook, and then in a pan in a pastry shell.
Anton Chekhov
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It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
Desiderius Erasmus
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He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act.
Ludwig Tieck