Norman O. Brown (Norman Oliver Brown) Quotes
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
Yoko Ono
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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There's an obvious attraction To the path of least resistance in your life Well there's an obvious aversion no amount of my insistence Could make you try tonight 'Cause it's easy not to So much easier not to And what goes around never comes around to you To you, to you, to you, to you, to you.
Alanis Morissette
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In the cotton States, after the war...the Jew came down in force, set up shop on the plantation, supplied all the negro's wants on credit, and at the end of the season was proprietor of the negro's share of the present crop and of part of his share of the next one. Before long, the whites detested the Jew, and it is doubtful if the negro loved him.
Mark Twain
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The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
Ben Harper
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You too can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aim and destination.
W. Clement Stone
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I love watching Rihanna in fashion. I like to see her take chances and risks. I like seeing Naomi Campbell in the forefront. They're both women who stand out and use their bodies as canvases to introduce this functional art to the world. They carry it in a way that is very inspiring.
Erykah Badu
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He who crosses the ocean twice without washing is a dirty double crosser.
Confucius
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There's some ill planet reigns: I must be patient till the heavens look With an aspect more favourable.
William Shakespeare
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To everyone who loves a long-secret romance, revealed at last.
Scott Westerfeld
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The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without deliberation – without worrying about their style – without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote – wrote, wrote…By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught.
Walt Whitman
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The internet is just a passing fad.
Bill Gates
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At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups.
Sean Parker
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Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee!
Seneca the Younger
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We didn't listen to critics, ... We did things with the fans and we did it our way. . . . That's what I'd like to be remembered by.
Mick Mars
Mötley Crüe
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That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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Nature is beautiful, and you are in her bosom. That voice of comfort which speaks in the breezes of morning, may visit your mind, that the delightful influences which the green leaves, the blue sky, the moonbeams and clouds of the evening diffuse over the universe, may in their powers of soul-healing, visit your day visions, is my desire and hope.
Humphry Davy
