Norman O. Brown (Norman Oliver Brown) Quotes
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
Edmund Phelps -
Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.
Maeve Binchy -
I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
Candice Olson -
What goes for sex goes double for politics.
Kate Clinton -
One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
Larry Gelbart -
I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
J. B. Smoove
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I didn't have any writer friends in college. I was a computer science major, but I was writing a lot, probably more than anybody I knew. I started to submit novels to New York when I was a freshman in college.
Watt Key -
Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
Raf Simons -
A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
Walter O'Brien -
Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
Ian Frazier -
As I get older, I find that wearing bright colors cheers me up.
Tadashi Shoji -
Today, the origin of 90% of all the edible food Gambians consume are from places they have never heard of.
Yahya Jammeh
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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
Victor Hugo -
The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
Barry Eichengreen -
Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
Salma Hayek -
Every city has a Donald Trump; ours is just the Trumpiest.
Padma Lakshmi -
I'm not at the hoarder stage, but there are two or three storage units here and there. I have things that a lot of people put a lot of heart and soul into, a lot of mental energy. I'm good at keeping those things. When it comes to pop culture, as you move through this fast lane, you wonder where it all goes and how you can hold onto it.
Taylor Hicks -
I have not thought about it, but when I die, just dance on my grave and water the plants with what you are drinking. Please do not clone me, because after a while your clone is not as bright as you are.
Robin Williams
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That somehow dreams are a blurred line between here and there, like a meeting room in a prison. You’re both in the same room, yet on different sides and really, in different worlds.
Cecelia Ahern -
When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.
Cameron Sinclair -
I make bold to say that it is profitable for the proud to fall, in order that they may be humbled in that for which they have exalted themselves.
Saint Augustine -
Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society.
Albert Einstein -
Love without attachment is light.
Norman O. Brown