Norman Rockwell Quotes
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My first vocation was dance.
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I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox.
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When we're ill, one of the last things we have that we can enjoy is food.
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The cobs were delivered to a big pile. We were one of the first to feed corn cobs to cattle.
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In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.
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I was pretty young, but because of that first record, 'Cole Espanol,' we took our first trip - well, my first trip - to Mexico.
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Reading a Lydia Davis story collection is like reaching into what you think is a bag of potato chips and pulling out something else entirely: a gherkin, a pepper corn, a truffle, a piece of beef jerky.
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I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.
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My first calendar was a combination of photos taken from different shoots including golf and casual.
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I was in the trade field as White House fellow in the first Bush administration.
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Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.
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I've been a big fan of Joe Hill ever since his first novel, 'Heart-Shaped Box.'
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I grew up a vegetarian. Then, because I grew up in the states, I started slowly eating meat. First it was bologna sandwiches, or pepperoni on pizza.
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Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.
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My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.
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It is expected that a children's story will raise a difficulty and then resolve it: increasingly, this resolution is so prompt and so resounding that one forgets what exactly the difficulty was.
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Why would even I say we can't stop drilling in the Gulf? Because we have no alternatives. Whether or not we drill in the Gulf, or in Alaska, we will continue to wring the last out of anyplace else.
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Nothing happens unless first we dream.
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The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands last year, the murderer and his supporters were also part of the Muslim community.
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Media is extraordinarily important and is an extraordinarily powerful tool. There's a reason that the first things that a rebellion or revolt will take is the media. The story you transmit is the story that becomes a given, or the narrative of a country and people.
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Many of the renewable technologies exist, we just need to use them. Where the technologies don’t exist — carbon capture might be an example — the industry is working together through the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative.
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I think it's about not just the crisis you're in, but how do you get to the other side? How do we heal? How do we survive this experience while remaining hopeful instead of filled with despair? That's what interests me.
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To my mind, it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives. But it is something you cannot possibly escape: your psychological make-up is such that you are inclined to look back over your shoulder.
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The story is the first thing and the last thing.
