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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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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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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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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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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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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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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If you can create an environment where people are invited to do their best work and the best ideas always win, then the project itself will win.
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I've had times where one of my roommates was moving out of the house in college, and because we were the only black people in that neighborhood, the cops got called, and we had guns drawn on us. Came in the house, without knocking, guns drawn on my teammates and roommates. So I have experienced this.
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My heart was always in my mouth when I started on a new routine.
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Honestly, I really hated dancing at first. Because I'm not good at it. I still don't like dancing.
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Knowing how people will use something is essential.
