John Norman Quotes
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When I realised that I had feelings for men as well as women, at first I was worried and frightened, and there was a certain amount of 'Who am I? Am I a criminal?' and so on. It took me a long time to come to terms with myself. Those were painful years - painful then and painful to look back on.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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Families are families. We've all got them, more or less, and we all know what it's like to be bullied by another generation.
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My awkward stage extended well into high school.
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I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along. I even like being liked, although activists of any stripe should get rid of that handicap at the outset.
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I had maybe watched 'The Apprentice' a couple of times. I didn't know that in later seasons they deported half of their contestants into tents in the backyard. They called it Trump's trailer park.
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The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.
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Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?
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It was a unique childhood, to say the least. My father was born in Patiala to refugee parents and was a part of the Indian Air Force. The talented few amongst the Air Force pilots are made test pilots. Test pilots are best suited to look at the space programme as they are trained to expect the unexpected.
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What I get a bit angry about is the image of women.
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When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'
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I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly but very intensely-that took me a long time to get over.
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I had cut a typing class because I hated to type, and I still don't know how to type, but now I can afford to have people type for me.
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I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
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The sun in his golden chariot had driven almost to the last meadow of the sky.
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Is our time up and on to the next fire / Got my fingers burnt and cut into the wire.
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Now you're my whole life;Now you're my whole world.I just can't believeThe way I feel about you girl.Like a river meets the sea,Stronger than it's ever been.We've come so far since that day,And I thought I loved you then.
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Machiavelli is not concerned with how men do live merely in order to describe it; his intention is rather, on the basis of knowledge of how men do live, to teach princes how they ought to rule and even how they ought to live.
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When I was first elected to parliament 18 years ago, one of the many things that struck me and that I still feel now is how the Labour Party, the party of collective action, can, at MP level and above, behave in such an individualistic way.
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I'm a passionate individual, and sometimes when I have strong feelings about a subject, I feel the need to express myself.
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There are certain people in our popular culture that just capture people's imaginations. And in death, they become even larger. Now, I have to admit that it's also fed by a 24/7 media that is insatiable.
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Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation.
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It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
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The man who respects a woman does not know what else to do with her.
