J. Frank Norris Quotes
To be wise means to be a teacher, means to be a soul winner. That's our business - That's our only business!
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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There's a lot of bad things going on but I didn't do nothing.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
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America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.
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I guess one that wouldn't be obvious is - well, maybe it's super obvious, I can't tell - 'I Love Lucy' is my favorite show, going back to when I was 4. I've watched every episode I don't know how many times. It was something to watch women being funny when I was young.
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You cannot rely on other people's support.
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There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.
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Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.
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What I did, anybody can do.
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A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
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It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.
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To be wise means to be a teacher, means to be a soul winner. That's our business - That's our only business!
