Norman O. Brown (Norman Oliver Brown) Quotes

The human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation.

Norman O. Brown

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• Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness. It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Important
  • Why
  • She

• Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.

  

  Edmund White
  • Political
  • Community
  • Body

• The biggest thing politically within fashion is that the clothing should be displayed on different body shapes.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Different
  • Fashion
  • Body

• Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are a form of money that's a stable field that the government can't destroy and can't distort. Because its creation is governed by the laws of mathematics. It can't happen any faster or slower than a certain rate, and it all sort of self-adjusts.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Money
  • Creation
  • Mathematics

• I love to eat a lot, but I try to eat healthy stuff. Especially when you're riding, sometimes I get hooked up with the cycling and when you're riding three, four, five hours, then you can put whatever you want in your body.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Want
  • Body
  • Healthy

• I'm not the girl for superhigh fashion because I don't have the right body.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Girl
  • Fashion
  • Body

• I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Pride
  • Wealth
  • Creation

• I think I've always had a 40-year-old body, and now that I'm actually there I'm like, 'Hey, pretty good, huh?'

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Good
  • Think
  • Pretty

• My silver cord – the link between my body and my spirit – was extremely sensitive. It was what allowed me to sense dreamscapes at a distance. It could also snap me back into my skin.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Body
  • Spirit
  • Distance

• The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesn't matter what body it came out of. I've never felt more strongly about anything in my life.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Life
  • Body
  • My Life

• People in my hometown voted for President Reagan - for many, like my grandpa, he was their first Republican - because he promised that tax cuts would bring higher wages and new jobs. It seemed he was right, so we voted for the next Republican promising tax cuts and job creation, George W. Bush. He wasn't right.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Job
  • Creation

• Architecture is a discourse; everything is a discourse. Fashion discourse is actually a micro-discourse, because it's centered around the body. It is the most rapidly developing form of discourse.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Fashion
  • Body
  • Architecture

• I've never experienced writer's block. When it's going really well, my body temperature goes up, and I'm flushed. I get quite delirious.

  

  M. J. Hyland
  • Up
  • Never
  • Body

• Maybe Trump isn't a racist in private. But he's sure acting like one in public. And his body language is corroborating the evidence.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Language
  • Body
  • Acting

• The spirit, like the body, can be strengthened and developed by frequent exercise. Just as the body, if neglected, grows weaker and finally impotent, so the spirit perishes if untended.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Body
  • Spirit
  • Exercise

• I do body conditioning, spinning and yoga. On the treadmill, I'll do intervals of running flat and then on incline. I'll do that for an hour.

  

  Fleur East
  • Running
  • Body
  • Yoga

• I have created a new genre. It is a soulful creation that comes straight from my heart.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Heart
  • New
  • Creation

• Actors only have our bodies, voices, and the text. So I think actors need to have a fit and in-tune body. I was always very disciplined in wanting to have that. That's one of my favorite things - playing a role with a physical requirement.

  

  T. J. Thyne
  • Think
  • Body
  • Need

• I have had a great vision on the mystery of Holy Mass and I have seen that whatever good has existed since creation is owing to it."

  

  Anne Catherine Emmerich
  • Vision
  • Creation
  • Mystery

• I don't try to impress people. Sometimes my jokes can be very harsh; I'm very sarcastic. I would joke about something disgusting, and my agent might be like, 'OK, maybe leave that behind for this one meeting. The burping? Maybe don't do that.'

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • People
  • Meeting
  • Sarcastic

• I think that whatever size or shape body you have, it's important to embrace it and get down!

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Confidence

• When the average American says, “I’m starving,” it is a prelude to a midnight raid on a well-stocked refrigerator or a sudden trip to the nearest fast food restaurant.

  

  Carolyn Custis James
  • American
  • Restaurant
  • Trip

• If someone hits me I consider it a challenge.

  

  Johnny Knoxville
  • Challenge
  • Hits
  • Considers

• The human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation.

  

  Norman O. Brown
  • Body
  • Creation
  • Substance