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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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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Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
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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 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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Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting.
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When you go to a show, Americans in New York are very proper, much more so than the French. Everything is perfect. Their hair, the nails, everything. The look. Everything is perfection.
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We are to have a tiny party here tonight. I hate tiny parties, they force one into constant exertion.
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Two Chinamen visiting Europe went to the theatre for the first time. One of them occupied himself with trying to understand the theatrical machinery, which he succeeded in doing. The other, despite his ignorance of the language, sought to unravel the meaning of the play. The former is like the astronomer, the latter the philosopher.
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There is some information that an actor doesn't need, and that's okay. I can't control everything. I don't want to control everything. Sometimes, you want to control everything, and you want to know the size of the lens and stuff like that. I am so relaxed as an actor because I don't want to control everything. I just want to control my part.
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The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks.
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I think romance is a tool, comedy is a tool and drama is a tool. I really just want to tell stories that challenge the viewer, move people, make you laugh, perhaps push an idea about being open-minded but never settle on a genre or an opinion. I hate genre. I like movies that are original in their approach.
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How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.
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Have the courage of your own convictions and don't be swayed by friends who boast about their financial home runs. Last year's winners are often this year's losers.
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When you work on your own life, you are less likely to hyper focus on the imperfections of your husband.
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Our spiritual life cannot be measured by success as the world measures it, but only by what God pours through us- and we cannot measure that at all.
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The purpose that you were created Man is exactly this: to prove, you too, with your life and with your work that everything can and should be done without any purpose. To be accomplished as the entire creation is accomplished.
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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.
