Norton Juster Quotes

Freedom is not a license for chaos.

Norton Juster

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• The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is of economic nationalism - making America an independent, self-sufficient, sovereign forever country that's able to stand on its own feet.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Country
  • American
  • America

• The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.

  

  Larry King
  • Money
  • America
  • Support

• The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Easy
  • Rights
  • Civil Rights

• I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Experience
  • Satisfaction

• A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • School
  • America
  • Change

• I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Product

• The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • History
  • Broken
  • Unity

• In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • World
  • Great
  • Music

• I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it when I'm clean-shaven. If you see me with a clean face, then you know I'm in the kissing mode!

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Hate
  • Wife
  • Daughter

• I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Kind

• It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

  

  Owen D. Young
  • Business
  • Man
  • Fear

• Starting in music, where I get a chance to connect with the lyrics of a song, I learned so much about performing on stage and connecting to your audience and to what you're singing about. Singing is very emotional. Every song has its own purpose.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Music
  • Song
  • Purpose

• Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America and the Jewish people in Russia, and that the Jewish people's problems were worse than ours.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • People
  • Life
  • America

• A great ratatouille is one in which the vegetables interact with each other but are still discernible from each other. The trick is to cook them just right: not over, not under.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Great
  • Right
  • Vegetables

• The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Art
  • History
  • Artist

• I cut up loads. I always want everything shorter, shorter, shorter.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Up
  • Want
  • Always

• Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Done
  • Bad
  • Day

• Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Death
  • Taken
  • Wind

• What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Freedom
  • Expression
  • Without

• I set out to destroy socialism because I felt it was at odds with the character of the people. We were the first country in the world to roll back the frontiers of socialism, then roll forward the frontiers of freedom. We reclaimed our heritage; we are renewing it and carrying it forward.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• The little platoon of the black community is the church. Our Christian faith is based on individual freedom from sin and the personal decision to find spiritual liberty that leads to a better life here on Earth and for eternity. On Sundays in America, the most conservative people can be found in black churches.

  

  Allen West
  • People
  • Life
  • America

• They cry press freedom, but (the raids) have nothing to do with it. We have no concern about what the EU might say, whether the EU accepts us as members or not, we have no such concern. Please keep your wisdom to yourself.

  

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan
  • Freedom
  • Wisdom
  • Concern

• Before 'Titanic,' yes, I had done some things and, yes, I had been nominated for an Academy Award, but I had never been sort of world-famous. And I suppose, yes, I am really famous now. But I feel embarrassed to say that because it's just a bit daft for me.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • World
  • Famous
  • Titanic

• Freedom is not a license for chaos.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Freedom
  • License