Norman R. Augustine Quotes
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I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
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To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.
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Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted.
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I love to have a band, but dancers are my priority because I really want a show, you know?
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Here in America, just as we see such incredible progress happening in one state, we see another state passing absolutely disgusting and oppressive laws against the rights of all sorts of people - transgender people, gay people, women.
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If you really want to know who I am, you have to be as absolutely empty as I am. Then two mirrors will be facing each other, and only emptiness will be mirrored. Infinite emptiness will be mirrored: two mirrors facing each other. But if you have some idea, then you will see your own idea in me.
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How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror.
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That is a strange phenomenon, people pretending to be other people.
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You have to be where you are to get where you need to go.
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Laws are the silent assessors of God.
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I feel overestimated.
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Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God.
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Hard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is, we're going to get out of it.
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If the Gospel and the Apostles may be credited, no man can be a Christian without charity, and without that faith which works, not by force, but by love.
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Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.
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While business advertises, charity is taught to beg. While business motivates with a dollar, charity is told to motivate with guilt. While business takes chances, charity is expected to be cautious. We measure the success of businesses over the long term, but we want our gratification in charity immediately. We are taught that a return on investment should be offered for making consumer goods, but not for making a better world.
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Families tend to artificially divide the world, imbuing one member with all the attributes and another with all the faults. But it's never that way.
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A man lives so many different lengths of time. And each one has its own end.
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Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
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The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
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Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.
