Norton Juster Quotes
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Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.
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It's very difficult, I think, especially on two cellphones, to have a romantic conversation.
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Apartheid either is or is not. And it must not be.
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Don't forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning.
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He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.
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Development is among the most important long-term multilateral agendas existing today. As we all know, lasting peace cannot be achieved unless large population groups find ways in which to break out of poverty.
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What would possess a family where's there's a husband and wife to want 12 kids or 18 kids? That's just what they feel is meaningful to them. Their family. Expanding a family.
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Ah, nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.
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They're sharing a drink they call lonliness, but it's better than drinking alone.
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In talking with people, don't begin by discussing the things on which you differ. Begin by emphasizing - and keep on emphasizing - the things on which you agree. Keep emphasizing, if possible, that you are both striving for the same end and that your only difference is one of method and not of purpose.
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As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.
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If I have a family down the road, I don't know if I could ever raise them in the city because I am a small town girl at heart. I definitely long for the mountains.
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I don't engage in self-censorship. But I do change everybody to have red hair in the last draft. ... If you give people red hair when in real life they haven't got red hair, I've noticed they don't recognize themselves, anyway.
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The only thing that's holding you back, is the way you're thinking.
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Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.
