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.
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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.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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.
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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.
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The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
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You too can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aim and destination.
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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.
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He who crosses the ocean twice without washing is a dirty double crosser.
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There's some ill planet reigns: I must be patient till the heavens look With an aspect more favourable.
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Lincoln movie had nothing to do with politics. It had nothing to do with holding a mirror up to the way we conduct our business on Capitol Hill. This was meant to be a story, a Lincoln portrait if you will. I think any time is the right time for a very compelling story, any time.
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To everyone who loves a long-secret romance, revealed at last.
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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.
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Chemistry between people is the strangest science of all.
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The internet is just a passing fad.
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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.
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Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity.
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All art must be for the end of liberating the masses. A landscape is only good when it shows the oppressor hanging from a tree.
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Everything starts from prayer. Without asking God for love, we cannot possess love and still less are we able to give it to others. Just as people today are speaking so much about the poor but they do not know or talk to the poor, we too cannot talk so much about prayer and yet not know how to pray.
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New weapons require new tactics. Never put new wine into old bottles.
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At President Obama's direction, the U.S Department of Agriculture is working hard to unleash the power of America's innovators and entrepreneurs to build a green energy economy.
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To be is to be vulnerable.
