Norton Juster Quotes
Is everyone who lives in Ignorance like you?" asked Milo. "Much worse," he said longingly. "But I don't live here. I'm from a place very far away called Context.
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If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.
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The game has given me so much, and I tried to give so much back to the people who have showed me so much love day after day.
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These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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When you have a voice, and you have an opportunity at the world level to be able to speak, it has to be right.
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I have a close association with Gen. Petraeus... What you get in Dave Petraeus is a very unique officer, a combination of intelligence, extraordinary depth of knowledge and understanding.
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The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
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But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.
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African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
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Too many couples break up without understanding the consequences for their families.
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I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters. More than simple habit, it's about what the commitment to expressing your thoughts and feelings in writing says about the character of the writer. About the joy such notes bring to the reader.
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I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing.
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I have always been infatuated with country music.
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We have to be serious and consistent if we believe the European Union makes sense. I believe it makes sense.
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I'm hooked on Polanski's films, his psychological thrillers. I love 'Rosemary's Baby,' I love 'Repulsion.'
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I don't know whether it's audiences or filmmakers who want characters to be likable today, but I don't think actors are afraid of their characters being unlikable.
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My predecessor, P. W. Botha, had an inner circle, and I did not like it. I preferred decisions to evolve out of cabinet discussions. That way, we achieved real co-ownership of our policies.
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It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
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If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
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Disrespect is my biggest pet peeve.
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Here's what I've learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.
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A French woman is a perfect architect in dress: she never, with Gothic ignorance, mixes the orders; she never tricks out a snobby Doric shape with Corinthian finery; or, to speak without metaphor, she conforms to general fashion only when it happens not to be repugnant to private beauty.
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Is everyone who lives in Ignorance like you?" asked Milo. "Much worse," he said longingly. "But I don't live here. I'm from a place very far away called Context.
