Norman O. Brown (Norman Oliver Brown) Quotes
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You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got to make it look like what it's supposed to look like five years from now.
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In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door into the crowd. I did the three songs I had recorded and got out. It was the worst day of my life.
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I really hate to write.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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In general, I'm rubbish in heels. I love them, and I own a lot because it's like being in a sweet shop: they're pretty. But I'm not good in them. I don't walk nicely in heels.
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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I'm interested in ways that digital interfaces can be utilized as powerful narrative devices, and to engage people in new and exciting ways.
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I'm used to being part of 'Game of Thrones' and going into something where you're a small part of something else. You don't want to hold anything up because they've got such a well-oiled machine going.
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I don't argue with people... if they say I'm not funny, they're right, for them.
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Water is my main state. If I time before I run - like, to digest, like, a good hour and a half or so to digest, I'll eat oatmeal. but I'm a vegetarian for the most part, so in general, I just eat grains and vegetables and fruit.
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The last season of 'Rescue Me' is going to be very sort of half and half: it's how you think 'Rescue Me' would end versus something very outside the box. And, they do it in this sort of perfect way - it's only nine episodes, you know. Very stream-lined.
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Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans.
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Logotherapy sees the human patient in all his humanness. I step up to the core of the patient's being. And that is a being in search of meaning, a being that is transcending himself, a being capable of acting in love for others.
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And I think a woman should find it a joy to be female because God made both male and female.
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I feel like I write the same album every time but each time I try to convey the message more simply.
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Candles are good as long as you're not me and you don't fall asleep and your house burns down.
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Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck.
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Palestine is Arab and must be liberated from the river to the sea and all the Zionists who emigrated to the land of Palestine must leave.
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Reactionary: One who wants the rules enforced so nobody can take his pile away from him the way he got it from others.
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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With the absence of pressure, it's hard to do great things.
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Meaning is not in things but in between them.
