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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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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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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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 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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I'm from Santa Cruz in Northern California, and the 49ers were my dad and I's bonding time.
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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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I lost my virginity junior year of college, I was 21... I was awkward, and I was raised Jehovah's Witness so I thought sex was bad, I thought I was going to go to hell, and get AIDS immediately.
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When the Korean economy was just trying to get back on its feet after the war, having parks was a luxury.
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I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes they commit.
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Minnesotans hate zeal. Zeal is right up there on the list of suspicious emotional behaviors like joy and despair. Always err on the side of blandness.
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I would like to do a series about sequencing the human genome, and also analyze more human diversity among other ethnic groups - a 'Faces of America 2.'
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If it were not for my firm belief in an overruling Providence, it would be difficult for me, in the midst of such complications of affairs, to keep my reason on its seat. But I am confident that the Almighty has His plans, and will work them out; and, whether we see it or not, they will be the best for us.
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I was in the Commons recently and saw a young lady wearing a nice pair of shoes. I said I liked them and she said my shoes were the reason she became involved in politics.
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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.
