Norton Juster Quotes
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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.
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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.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
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A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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Successful ventures in business or philanthropy are built around great teams who can help us overcome tremendous challenges - and have the right experiences and relationships to do so.
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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.
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It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I cut up loads. I always want everything shorter, shorter, shorter.
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Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
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Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.
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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
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When you represent in your work shadows which you can only discern with difficulty, and of which you cannot distinguish the edges so that you apprehend them confusedly, you must not make them sharp or definite lest your work should have a wooden effect.
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You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff.
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Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves.
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Freedom is not a license for chaos.
