Joshua A. Norton Quotes

We, Norton I, do hereby decree that the offices of President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House of Representatives are, from and after this date, abolished.

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• As the law minister, I had ensured that the government's right to natural resources was protected. The result was evident. The honourable Supreme Court gave the landmark decision in RIL vs RNRL case that the government is the owner of all natural resources.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Law
  • Government
  • Decision

• I just thought any workout that is effective and I can do while laying down I'm signing up for.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Up
  • Thought
  • Down

• Yes, I'm proud to be indigenous. I'm half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Proud
  • Yes
  • Peru

• I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Yourself
  • Gift
  • Forgiveness

• Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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  • Well
  • Handle

• I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the extremities of the earth.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • People
  • Good
  • God

• I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Up
  • Day
  • Week

• Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Speech

• My education was very tough.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Education
  • Very
  • Tough

• I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Eye
  • Look

• When our backs are on the wall, that's the time when we enjoy having fun, relax out there, do our thing, don't get the pressure on, see the results, day by day, game by game.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Game

• 'Orange Is the New Black' and 'Sense8' have enjoyed great success all over the world.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • World
  • Great
  • Success

• I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Star

• First off, it's wonderful how much people are supporting me and felt I should have stayed in the competition.

  

  LaToya London
  • People
  • Competition
  • Wonderful

• It's a trip but it hasn't crossed over to the point where women are throwing their panties at me.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Women
  • Me
  • Point

• Procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue for creativity.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Creativity
  • Productivity

• Well, life is dark, isn't it? Mostly, it's dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we make of it.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Life
  • Time
  • Death

• People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Together
  • Band
  • Find

• Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • World
  • Live
  • Country

• It's not good or bad, but closers have changed things. I don't think you are going to win a World Series without one. Where would the Yankees be without Mariano Rivera?

  

  Bruce Sutter
  • World
  • Good
  • Bad

• When I look around, I always learn something: to be always yourself, and to express yourself, to have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Faith
  • Personality

• What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Book
  • House
  • Kind

• We, Norton I, do hereby decree that the offices of President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House of Representatives are, from and after this date, abolished.

  

  Joshua A. Norton
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