Norman O. Brown (Norman Oliver Brown) Quotes

To be is to be vulnerable.

Norman O. Brown

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• Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • God
  • Artist
  • Just

• 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
  • Think
  • Just
  • Consistent

• Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Inspire

• 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
  • Life
  • Path

• 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
  • Up
  • Long
  • War

• The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.

  

  Ben Harper
  • American
  • Discover
  • American Music

• You too can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aim and destination.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Motivational
  • Meaningful
  • Target

• 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
  • World
  • Women
  • Art

• He who crosses the ocean twice without washing is a dirty double crosser.

  

  Confucius
  • Ocean
  • Crosses
  • Washing

• There's some ill planet reigns: I must be patient till the heavens look With an aspect more favourable.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heaven
  • Looks
  • Patient

• 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.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Business
  • Politics
  • Capitol Hill

• To everyone who loves a long-secret romance, revealed at last.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Romance

• 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
  • Life
  • Write
  • Secret

• Chemistry between people is the strangest science of all.

  

  Bridgett Devoue
  • Science
  • Chemistry

• The internet is just a passing fad.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Internet

• I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Time
  • God
  • Day

• Terrorism seems to be the ugly twin of democracy. We need to learn to live with it because we are vulnerable to it.

  

  Jonathan Powell
  • Democracy
  • Terrorism
  • Vulnerable

• I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Myself
  • Like
  • See

• To be is to be vulnerable.

  

  Norman O. Brown
  • To Be
  • Vulnerable