Norton Juster Quotes
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In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.
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I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
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So I am, in fact, very optimistic about the future of my federal party.
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I believe it is impossible to be sure of anything.
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The naked mole is, like, the ugliest freakin' creature in the world. It is so radically, unbelievably disgusting. And the star-nosed mole is also. It looks like it snorted a firecracker. They live way underground, and to get footage of them is basically impossible.
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In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.
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Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
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It's almost impossible to reconcile the realities of how one feels during the day, hour by hour. But I approach things not cynically.
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A realistic view of humanity will stop the proliferation of impossible injunctions.
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About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
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Nothing is impossible for pure love.
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To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic.
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I think there's a lot of interesting stuff on TV. I feel much more optimistic about TV than I do about movies. There will always be good movies but I think, for the most part, it's always going to be a huge fight to get those movies made. TV is the best place to be as a writer, I think.
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When you're following people after their eviction, they often start out kind of optimistic, in a way - it's a really tough time, but it's also like a new start. Who knows where they might end up?
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I am still a very optimistic person. I continue to do work with joy.
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I'm extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general.
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I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things.
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It's hard to be a No. 1 when you're not even No. 1 on your team.
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There can be no whole without a thought which grasps it as a whole; and this grasping of what is before the mind as a whole can be effected only by a sort of voluntary halt in a kind of progressive movement of thought.
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Since we are mortal, friendships are best kept to a moderate level, rather than sharing the very depths of our souls.
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So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.
