Norton Juster Quotes
Since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking.
Quotes to Explore
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The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.
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What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine.
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One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.
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The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.
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I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person.'
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At Linkabit, we put little effort and energy into patenting things.
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Acting isn't the be-all end-all. There are a lot of other things in my life that will bring me joy if I didn't act anymore.
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An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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I wrote and finished the script for 'Man in the Middle' two weeks after the September 11 bombing. It's a very American film about an ex-diplomat based in the Middle East, a leader in the U.S. administration who now sells used cars in the Middle East.
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No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music.
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Fencing made me feel for the first time like a winner.
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For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.
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We are all slaves to the shining metal.
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The government in Macedonia is committed to move forward in the direction of political reforms and economic reforms and with inter-ethnic relationships so that it can become eventually a member of the European family institutionally.
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If you talk about big trends at Disney, these movies generally are generated by directors or directorial teams pitching ideas to John Lasseter.
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Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.
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If it seems like you are playing around and not practicing, that's when you know you really love it.
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Artt Frank is my all-time favorite drummer. He always seems to know where I'm going.
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And while it is hard enough to take away something that makes a person happy it's even more difficult when it seems like it's the only thing.
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Keep your dream in front of you. Never let it go regardless of how farfetched it might seem.
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Since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking.
