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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Stay around for me. Out do everyone. Sometimes I catch them. Stay around for me.
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Aspire to be like Mt. Fuji, with such a broad and solid foundation that the strongest earthquake cannot move you, and so tall that the greatest enterprises of common men seem insignificant from your lofty perspective. With your mind as high as Mt Fuji you can see all things clearly. And you can see all the forces that shape events; not just the things happening near to you.
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You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to improve yourself? I have never in my entire life met a man who didn't want to go to bed with me because I was too fat.
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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.
