Norman O. Brown (Norman Oliver Brown) Quotes
To be seen is the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead.
Norman O. Brown
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
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I am a perfectly normal woman. If what we do is storytelling and represent people that we see all day and every day, well, we do not see supermodels all day and every day.
Olivia Colman
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If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
La Monte Young
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The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of the waste management system, as trash is shipped throughout the country in a maze-like disposal process - as we saw in Seattle with our own Trash Track project.
Carlo Ratti
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Politics is not an exact science.
Otto von Bismarck
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I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.
A. J. Jacobs
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
Gary Oldman
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I want to spend as much time as I can with my family, yet I'm aware of having to bring home the bacon.
Dan Stevens
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In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.
Jackson Katz
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Barbara Tuchman
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One of the things I did to make myself feel better is that I kicked up my running even more. I knew that I had to stay active, that I had to keep living as if my life was actually going to unfold naturally because when you stop, when you freeze, and you think about it, that's when the demons come and can drag you down.
Dan Hill
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I don't like being weak in front of my mum or anyone for that matter. I don't like crying.
Abbey Clancy
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The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area.
Karen Duffy
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I have an aim - I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in Indian politics; it is something that is inside my heart.
Rahul Gandhi
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I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
Jackie Evancho
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I was a late bloomer. I was a kinda shy little kid, definitely a child of the dark side. I wanted to play guitar and be in a rock band.
Yul Vazquez
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Rituparno Ghosh is a legendary director, and I happen to be a huge fan of his.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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I'm interested in creating a little sound world for songs, really crafting it, building it, and making it like a little doll's house with little things inside it, staircases and rooms and everything kind of relates to everything else. I've never seen it as drums, bass, guitar and vocals in very separate spaces.
Imogen Heap
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As I got older, I'd say probably when I got to, like, seventh or eighth grade, I was living in Atlanta, Georgia at the time, and I went for an open call for an agent, a local agent out there, a woman named Joy Purvis, and she ended up picking me up.
David Lambert
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I've run into women who can be highly problematic, detrimental, and mean, just like I've seen that in men.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
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Change may be the vitalizing wind blowing through the house of life, but it is not an abiding force. We need permanent things to soak peace into us as well as progress - the beauty of the earth, seedtime and harvest, the smiles of lovers, the joy of the young in being alive, pride in craftsmanship. Why, oh why must we let ourselves forget these lasting treasures in an age of consuming ambition, speed madness and accumulated goods that leave us no chance to live? If we cannot be contented with a little no wealth will ever satisfy us.
Helen Keller
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The one thing I couldn't identify with was the blue cowboy outfit he put on.
Dwayne Johnson
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It feels better to love than to hate.
Stevie Wonder
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To be seen is the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead.
Norman O. Brown
