Norman Thomas Quotes
The central law of all wholesome life is reciprocity, mutuality. ... But the group is valuable only as it permits personalities, not automatons, to emerge.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
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We live in a world now where everything is tweeted and Instagrammed and tagged and now, God help us, Vined. Calling out grievances over Twitter has become an industry norm.
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I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
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The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
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Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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I'm proud of my family, very proud - I have ten grandchildren, four children, and one wife.
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I don't like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I'm alone with a good book.
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I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move.
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I do a lot of yoga, and that definitely helps. And Pilates is so good for your legs.
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Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.
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We will see the presence of angels and we will see an intensification of miracles around the world.
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I had a weirdly awesome high-school experience.
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Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting.
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Interviewer: You once said you had a drug problem... Lily: Yeah, I still do. It's so hard to find good grass these days.
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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It's hard to do large, expensive projects without some sort of hierarchical structure where somebody can tell you - maybe softly, but at least tell you - what to do, or you have some supervision over you. Physicists like to be completely independent of each other. So that's a constant struggle. And it's a place that sometimes we get in trouble.
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When the sacredness of one's word is matched in the attributes of his character throughout, all that constitutes a man, then we find that there is something in a man's life greater than his occupation or his achievements; grander than acquisition or wealth; higher than genius; more enduring than fame.
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Finally it has penetrated my thick skull. This life-this moment-is no dress rehearsal. This is it.
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The central law of all wholesome life is reciprocity, mutuality. ... But the group is valuable only as it permits personalities, not automatons, to emerge.
