Norman Ornstein Quotes
You have smart people and a lot of money at stake. People are going to find loopholes.
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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I think punditry serves no purpose.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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I am a simple Buddhist monk - no more, no less.
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When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.
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From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
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An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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Find fault with thyself rather than with others.
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The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
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The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution's protection of privacy.
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But I don't mind, I'm a bit of a touring animal. When I'm on tour that is the greatest thrill for me, playing to a live audience.
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I try to pack light with a folding leather suit bag. Anything more than five days, I need to check in my luggage. What takes the most space? Chef jackets, aprons and tools.
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I was an outsider as a kid, and I grew up around a lot of violence.
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Something had been given back to him. And because she had been a part of it, there was something between them now. A bond of loss, if loss could bind.
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Anybody that's ever been to Israel and to Palestine knows that you can't look at a person and tell if they're Israeli or Palestinian. You can assume. But I've seen Palestinians who look Swedish, and I've seen Israelis who are black.
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We have so many words for states of the mind, and so few for states of the body.
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Infinity has got to become mine so that I can know which way to turn, so that I can know in what direction something like morning is breaking.
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There are three things being a celebrity is good for: raising money for charity, dinner reservations and tee times.
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When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.
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You have smart people and a lot of money at stake. People are going to find loopholes.
