John Norman Quotes
A Gorean slave girl in the presence of a free man or woman always kneels, unless excused from doing so.
Quotes to Explore
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task.
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
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When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I've got.
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Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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I was very rebellious.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.
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In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.
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I don't see as many movies as I used to. Or, I should say, as many movies as I would like to.
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All cities are impressive in their way, because they represent the aspiration of men to lead a common life; those people who wish to live agreeable lives, and in constant intercourse with one another, will build a city as beautiful as Paris.
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It would grant me much relief to learn your sons were engaged matrimonially to other white men if I was previously faced with the spectre of those same sons wedding negro women, slave or free, and siring negro sons that could presume to claim inheritance of your namesakes and property, or worse, equality with your purer grandchildren.
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A girl who never smiles has such power - what men will do to turn up but one corner of her mouth! She already wears her red war-gown and her circlet of cinnabar poppies. They bring out the color in her grimace.
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A Gorean slave girl in the presence of a free man or woman always kneels, unless excused from doing so.
