Donald Norman Quotes
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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In Germany I am not so famous.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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Look, there ought to be politics in politics.
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When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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As we've grown as a country, we've allowed our fears and our doubts and our questions about things that we don't know to become more divisive than uniting us as a country, as a people.
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My job is to rectify the public finances and hand the country back to the people so they can really have a future, and that is what I will do.
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I think our capacity for wholeheartedness can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted. It means engaging with the world from a place of vulnerability and worthiness.
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I'm really interested with the way light plays on images and one of the artists that really reawakened my interest in comic books was Frank Miller and his treatment of Daredevil, and then Wolverine and, of course, Batman.
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Knowing how people will use something is essential.
