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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Sometimes you think they must have come out of the chimp cages at the Bronx zoo.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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I have heard of some kind of men that put quarrels purposely on others, to taste their valor.
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Ric Flair was so big I heard about him. I've read his autobiography and all that. He's huge.
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I heard on public radio recently, there's a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a garden and weed and then they take turns, they keep matching up with other people. Two people will weed down one row and switch over with two other people. It's in Vermont. I don't think I'd be very good at Weed Dating.
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Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?
