Norton Juster Quotes
To a child, and to an adult, too, what you discover by yourself, or what you think you discover by yourself, is what stays.
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My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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My number one job at the end of the day is to entertain.
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People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfully in politics, because most of us don't speak like Obama or Clinton.
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I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.
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Sundays are for Dim Sum. While the rest of America goes to church, Sunday School, or NFL games, you can find Chinese people eating Cantonese food.
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I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.
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I like Everton. If I'm going to cheer for that kind of football team, I'm going to cheer for Everton. But the Seahawks are my passion.
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If you look at people who have an iPhone or Android and are under 40 and are dissatisfied with their bank, it's actually quite a large market.
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I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real.
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'Mad Men' still lives in my life as the best job that I've ever had because I thought the character was genius. It was so well-written.
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Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds.
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I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
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Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.
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I've always said, 'If you need Viagra, you're probably with the wrong girl.'
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I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.
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What is the most interesting thing to people? Other people.
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I always make the point that teachers are people too, and that they don't just want to be in front of kids all day and have children be their only feedback loop.
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Parents can only do what they think is best, with the experience they have. The learning curve for every parent is that there's a limit to how much they can shield children from.
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I was rather a fat little boy.
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I love beautiful women, and beautiful women love me. It has to be both ways.
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To a child, and to an adult, too, what you discover by yourself, or what you think you discover by yourself, is what stays.
