Norman Thomas Quotes

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it.

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• I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the '80s really changed when the '90s hit. For me to chase that dream or career of music, I started a family, started on 'Melrose Place,' so it was something I didn't have the time or energy.

  

  Jack Wagner
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Time
  • Together
  • Year

• I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Up
  • Music
  • House

• I don't have a child, so Women for Women is like my child. But I always said I would step down after 20 years. I didn't want to be a 60-year-old woman holding on to something I created when I was 23.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Step

• I was put on a pony as a kid at some birthday party when you're all led around.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Party
  • Kid
  • Birthday

• I partly know why I have not led a perfect life like other believers. But I avow to my Lord, and I do not lie, that from the time when I first knew him, the love of God and the fear of him has grown in me from my youth so that I have, by the power of God, always till now kept the faith.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Man
  • Stupid
  • Bush

• I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they'd take sympathy on me.

  

  Daniel Johns Silverchair
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions.

  

  Wim Wenders
  • Style
  • Film

• His head was swimming, and he was far from certain even of the direction they had been going in when he had his fall. He guessed as well as he could, and crawled along for a good way, till suddenly his hand met what felt like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor of the tunnel. It was a turning point in his career, but he did not know it. He put the ring in his pocket almost without thinking; certainly it did not seem of any particular use at the moment.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Fall
  • Lying
  • Swimming

• Not all bodies are born in male or female. There is a continuum of bodies and it seems to me that trying to persuade medical and psychiatrist establishments to deal with the intersex involves critique of the binary gender system. Similarly there continues to be extreme, sometimes very extreme violence against transgender people.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Violence
  • Deal
  • Establishments

• Microsoft went into orbit because it had a booster rocket attached to it called IBM.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Microsoft
  • Orbit
  • Ibm

• History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.

  

  Will Durant
  • Money
  • History
  • Manage

• There's this divergence out there between the very small and the very large with the middle disappearing. There is something paradoxical going on where there is this access and we can seek out things on the fringes, but that doesn't describe the overall reality, because the big are bigger than ever.

  

  Astra Taylor
  • Reality
  • Bigger
  • Disappear

• When I was just five years old, I loved the scary layer and the symbolical power of the red cloak. I made my mom make me that red cloak, and I had to wear it on Halloween, two years in a row.

  

  Catherine Hardwicke
  • Mom
  • Scary
  • Made

• Close to the Gates a spacious Garden lies, From the Storms defended and inclement Skies; Four Acres was the allotted Space of Ground, Fenc'd with a green Enclosure all around. Tall thriving Trees confessed the fruitful Mold: The reddening Apple ripens here to Gold, Here the blue Fig with luscious Juice overflows, With deeper Red the full Pomegranate glows, The Branch here bends beneath the weighty Pear, And verdant Olives flourish round the Year.

  

  Homer
  • Lying
  • Blue
  • Garden

• I am miracle ingredient Z-247. I'm immense. I'm a real, slam-bang, honest-to-goodness, three-fisted humdinger. I'm a bona fide supraman.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Real
  • Miracle
  • Honest

• I don't consider myself a flag bearer in the parade, but I have never felt stronger about who I am.

  

  Anzia Yezierska
  • Felt
  • Consider
  • Flag

• If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it.

  

  Norman Thomas
  • Burn
  • Flag
  • Gesture