Denis Norden Quotes
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I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.
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Any time you can give consumers more of what they want, it's a good thing. Unbundling the album is a good thing. In the case of music - because it is content that you can slice into songs - doing that is of huge benefit to consumers.
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Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry.
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His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.
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I like women with style to wear my shoes.
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We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.
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I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.
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I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.
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If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well.
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Translation is the art of failure.
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Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
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It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.
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The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences.
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People saw me as just a singer – yeah, a pretty face who could sing – and not more than that.
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Above all, when your voices are heard in government, it's far more likely that your basic needs will be met. And that’s why reform must reach the daily lives of those who are hungry and those who are ill, and those who live without electricity or water.
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A man shall not be full of laughter and mockery, nor sad and mournful, but joyful. ... His desire shall not be so great that he rushes for wealth, nor shall he be lazy and refrain from working. But he shall live in contentment, have a modest occupation, and be occupied mainly with the Torah.
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He showed me his fantastic library first, and that helped me warm to him a little. A guy with a room like that in his house couldn’t be all bad.
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The stars were my best friends. The air was full of legends and phantoms, full of mythical and fair-tale creatures, which suddenly flew away over the roof, so that one was at one with the firmament.
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Birth is the scariest event of most peoples' lives. You have to feel safe enough in your own mind before you can remember your own birth.
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Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.
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You need to be proactive, carve out time in your schedule, and take responsibility for being the healthiest person you can be - no one else is going to do it for you.
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We are so proud of our guarantees of freedom in thought and speech and worship, that, unconsciously, we are guilty of one of the greatest errors that ignorance can make - we assume our standard of values is shared by all other humans in the world.
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What is a harp but an over-sized cheese-slicer with cultural pretensions?
