Norman Rockwell Quotes
The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be.
Quotes to Explore
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
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My dinner spot is usually in front of the TV. I'll grill a steak and whip up a salad and watch 'Hoarders'. I love it because a) I'm kind of voyeuristic, and b) every time I see an episode, I go to the one room where all my unpacked boxes wound up, and I throw out a box of stuff.
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Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.
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I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe.
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I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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I love Cameron Diaz, and I love Drew Barrymore.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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I have a strong affinity for animals.
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Don't listen to what other people say about you negatively!
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Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it.
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I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.
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I love Sam Mendes. He's a fantastic director.
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I'm still driven by the feeling I had when I wrote my first book or read a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle adventure.
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Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word 'water' is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.
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I have a great track record, and I have never been sued. If I can't find someone for someone, I refer them out. I have an affiliate division of matchmakers all over the world that I work with. Men like certain types of women, and I can subcontract that out to foreign countries.
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Detroit, the heart of the country... I grew up on 10 Mile, 2 miles better than 8 Mile.
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The apparent pointlessness of fashion may be just what makes it so strong as a zeitgeist sensor. Even I, a designer, do not know why a certain proportion feels dated or why another one feels exciting at a given moment. I leave that to the cultural historians and theorists.
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I do feel I have all the qualities of a film star but then why didn't I make it that big? I blame it on my destiny. I was not there at the right place at the right time.
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You have to get out there and compete. You have to work hard. People aren't just going to come knocking on your door and say, 'Please let me invest $1 billion in your back yard.' You need to be able to go and match the pitch and close the deal.
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Basketball is so unique. It's both a team and an individual sport.
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You better believe there will be times in your life when you'll be feeling like a stumbling fool. So take it from me: you'll learn more from your accident than anything that you could ever learn in school.
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The goal of life is not to have our lives mean something to ourselves. The goal of life is to have our lives mean something to others.
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The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be.
