Norton Juster Quotes
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Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.
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There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story.
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There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.
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I think the water dictates how food will taste in a country. In England the apples taste unlike apples grown in any other place. England is an island, there's a lot of salt in the air and in the water. I think that has something to do with it.
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You know a one eyed woman, she do the best she can. She search the world over trying to find her a one eyed man.
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There is nothing in the way of amelioration of the conditions of life, of politics, of social and ethical matters, that may not be affected through the skilful application of those principles of advertising that, in business, have proved to be so wonderfully effective.
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We can do a bit of blaming: the proliferation of devices means we're always at work, always on call, always available. Physically leaving the office isn't a declaration of being off work anymore; your office is in your bag or pocket.
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We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people.
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I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.
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As soon as I came to believe there was a God, I understood that I could not do otherwise than live only for him.
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Not like a heart, which let people in without permission, held them in a special place she never had any say in and then yearned for them to remain there longer than they planned.
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He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs.
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How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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Doing 'Narcos' is a very, very important part of my life. I dedicated so much of my life to it.
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle - those things are good gifts. The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts. We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn't make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn't live without them.
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Just remember we are always talking about the organization as a whole—not about the manufacturing department, or about one plant, or about one department within the plant. We are not concerned with local optimums.
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We have not been asking the serious questions about the future of our species, questions sci-fi regularly explores by showing us the best and worst of what could be.
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Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
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I meet people, I like to ask: which sign are you?
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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Listening is the key to everything good in music.
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But my favorite period for actors is the 70s. I think so many great movies were made in the 70s. The 90s just seem to be a confused decade. Nobody knows, really, what's going on.
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Many of the things which can never be, often are.
