Norton Juster Quotes

But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance

Norton Juster

• Trying
• Enthusiasm
• Turns
• Loses
• Vengeance
• Absolutes

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• We're a very iterative company, so we jump on basically all new technology.

  

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• Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

  

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• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

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• I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

  

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• My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.

  

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• High school golf, college golf and the decade that followed all come back to me now as one big raucous, goofy gangsome.

  

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• We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.

  

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• Ricky Martin is one of my idols in the industry.

  

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• X-rays revealed that some people were born without a corpus callosum, and they seemed just fine.

  

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• Coming up, the music of my era was very conscious. I grew up on Public Enemy, and it was popular culture to be aware. People were wearing Malcolm X T-shirts and Malcolm X hats. It was a very cool thing to know who Malcolm X was. It was all in the lyrics. It was trendy to be conscious and aware.

  

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• The settlers do not have a problem with the leftists but, rather, with Israelis who like settlers: Israelis who are unconcerned by the fact that national-religious youngsters are overtaking our elite units. Such Israelis actually appreciate the settlers for that.

  

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• From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.

  

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• Première communion de jeunes filles chlorotiques par un temps de neige.

  

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• So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue, and telling funny stories about how crap I am before people have a chance to notice it for themselves and think maybe I haven't realised.

  

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• The financial crisis and the Great Recession posed the most significant macroeconomic challenges for the United States in a half-century, leaving behind high unemployment and below-target inflation and calling for highly accommodative monetary policies.

  

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• I've always felt lonely, even if I'm in a great relationship or surrounded by my friends and family.

  

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• Apple has always been, and always will be, a hardware-first company. It produces beautiful devices with elegant designs and humane operating-system software.

  

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• When you finally have kids, you realize how selfish you are. I think we are naturally selfish beings. When you have kids, that can kind of be a shock at first. I think just trying to make time for yourself is very hard. Especially now that I have 3, finding that time can be very difficult.

  

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• I sequence during the entire recording process. The sequencing changes as I'm recording and as I'm listening. From when I'm, like, four songs in, I start trying to figure out which song should come after which. Which is important, and it changes as the album goes.

  

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• I really love research. It's one of the things I love most about my job. I feel like it's me in the lab cooking up the character.

  

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• But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance

  

  Norton Juster
  • Trying
  • Enthusiasm
  • Turns