Norton Juster Quotes
You see, to tall men I'm a midget, and to short men I'm a giant; to the skinny ones I'm a fat man, and to the fat ones I'm a thin man.
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Planning is thinking beforehand how something is to be made or done, and mixing imagination with the product - which in a broad sense makes all of us planners. The only difference is that some people get a license to get paid for thinking and the rest of us just contribute our good thoughts to our fellow man.
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My serve has killed a small dog ... I'm joking, I'm joking! The dog was huge!
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Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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Things which do not grow and change are dead things.
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He said he wasn't ready to come out. But then he sat down for a while, came back, and made a shot like that. We wanted him to rest his legs. Your legs can suffer when you take as many shots as he does.
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Risks I think are the thing that make life important and everything that you and I do is risk vs. benefit. Is there a risk to sending your kid out? Absolutely. Is there a benefit? It exceeds the risk.
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The gospel is not itself about you are this sort of a person and this can happen to you. That's the result of the gospel rather than the gospel itself.
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Our experience is that many people manage to give up for a while and then suffer a relapse.
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We still don't know the facts. Prosecutors are looking into it, but it's hard to comment.
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Give Me a Turkish Army. I will Conquer world.
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A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none.
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I began with track and field because this is what I know.
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I still play that guitar. It's a Martin D-18 with a clear pick guard. I've played that guitar on and off my TV shows for nearly 50 years.
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I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic.
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Listen can you hear the distance calling Far away but will be with you soon
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All of a sudden I feel more womanly, I feel like I got a figure. I was always really straight up and down, the skinny one in the middle, like that poster at Elaine's of the Supremes at Lincoln Center - it was done by Joe Eula. To me that's really a reflection of the way I was. I was just like a bean pole. Now I'm getting a few curves and I like it.
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You see, to tall men I'm a midget, and to short men I'm a giant; to the skinny ones I'm a fat man, and to the fat ones I'm a thin man.
