Norman Parkinson Quotes
I like to make people look as good as they'd like to look, and with luck, a shade better.
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While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
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I want to find a way to speak to the broadest audience possible.
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I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.
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Things that came before, people and things and experiences – that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.
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I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.
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I thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero.' I think I'd be just that kind of perfect not prepared for this kind of thing, but thrust into circumstances he's not prepared for... that's another niche of mine. Unpreparedness. Not knowing what to do. I'm good at being that guy.
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I travel regularly and have learnt to be very methodical as far as packing is concerned. For example, I always check the weather in advance of where I'm going to ensure that I've packed the right clothes.
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I've always been attracted to action stuff.
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The future of time, of how it's won or lost, endured or enjoyed, expanded or compressed, will depend on how it's valued, not how it's measured.
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Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
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It's special to have people see you and tell you, 'You make me laugh.' That makes me feel good. I think if you have the talent to do it, it's your duty to pass it on.
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When you're working in public radio, you don't have any money to advertise.
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I don't consciously use my own life or experience at all.
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To be here recovers from a state of soul, from a state of mind. I have the memory of the heart. I know what I received. I must have the will to give back to others.
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Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.
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I always feel that I compete with myself.
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I like meat and carbohydrates.
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I've probably done more than a thousand interviews, and I can't remember what people asked me two months ago or two days ago.
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On April 8, 1982, I was alone in the electron microscope room when I discovered the Icosahedral Phase that opened the field of quasi-periodic crystals.
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I can understand going for Botox at 45-50, when you want to keep things in place. But I don't understand 25 year olds going for Botox or under the knife. You don't require it. Your skin is fresh, young. Why would you do that to yourself?
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The reader feels as if he is in Chongjin, where starving people ate the bark off trees; or atop Mount Taesong with the elite of Pyongyang, whose existence is a mix of sadism and whimsy; or with the masses who are bombarded day and night with the propaganda of North Korea's alternate reality.
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I like to make people look as good as they'd like to look, and with luck, a shade better.
