Norton Juster Quotes
You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.
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Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.
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There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.'
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I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.
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I want to show people there's not just one way of being Muslim.
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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
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The true doctrine is that labor - systematic, effective, congenial labor - is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment.
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You've gotta believe in yourself, and you just have to work harder at it than you've ever worked at anything before in your life. And if you keep doing that and keep believing in yourself, great things do happen.
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In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
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Since I began my practice of Forgiveness Therapy, it's now instinctual for me to choose to eat like I love myself - instead of eating like I wanted to punish myself. Plus I've not only lost weight, I've lost the anger and anxiety I was feeling, and so I feel happier and calmer within.
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As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.
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Wherever there are communities fighting for freedom and liberation, there are serious tensions.
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I've always seen first responders as unsung heroes and very special people because, when everyone else is running away from danger, they run into it.
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I have a kind of neutrality, physically, which has helped me. I have a face that can be made to look a lot better - or a lot worse.
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I am forever indebted to the ANC, the liberation movement I have served almost all my life.
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Some people think of me as an actor and some as a movie star, so I sort of guess that makes me both. I love making movies, and I love playing on the stage.
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I do feel like an outsider, but I don't lose any sleep over it.
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More than all, and above all, George Washington was master of himself. If there be one quality more than another in his character which may exercise a useful control over the men of the present hour, it is the total disregard of self when in the most elevated positions for influence and example.
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God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.
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There are times it's the only thing I want and I wonder how I'll ever go back to the world of noise and distraction. Other times, silence allows me to hear what's really going on in my head. Part of the reason we're on our phones or watching television or reading magazines is to give our heads something else to listen to other than our own thoughts.
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You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.
