Norton Juster Quotes
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Revolutionary art anticipates visionary physics. When the vision of the revolutionary artist, rooted in the Dionysian right hemisphere, combines with precognition, art will prophesy the future conception of reality.
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You can teach students how to work; you can teach them technique - how to use reason; you can even give them a sense of proportions - of order. You can teach them general principles.
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Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.
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I don't feel like I have anything to prove, I'm not trying to be like 'this is me'. It's not anything like that, it's just fun songs, throwing my hair around.
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A bully is fighting out of a need to dominate. And is usually unwilling to take the consequences.
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If you push yourself to stay hungry, you're always working towards at least taking steps forward. If you're taking steps forward, then you're making progress.
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I'm not a daily coffee guy at all, or energy drinks or anything like that.
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A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all.
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I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn't stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me.
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The Russian people chose democracy at the beginning of the 1990s and this was their final choice.
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With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true.
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I've always been able to make a living, a pretty decent one. The progress has always been steady, if not spectacular. Now when I audition, I go up against people like Juliette Lewis and Joan Cusack, and, quite frankly, if the producers can get them, they're not going to take me. I'm still pretty much a medium potato.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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I've always heard that heli-skiing in Alaska is amazing. I would love to be able to do that at some point in my life.
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I can't think of anything that people probably wouldn't already have heard of.
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The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
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Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?
