Norman O. Brown (Norman Oliver Brown) Quotes
Mankind today is still making history without having any conscious idea of what it really wants or under what conditions it would stop being unhappy; in fact what it is doing seems to be making itself more unhappy and calling that unhappiness progress.Norman O. Brown
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
Dakota Johnson -
I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.
Tanit Phoenix -
Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.
Patrick Macnee -
Lipgloss is my calling!
Vanessa Hudgens -
People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
Ian Mckellen -
See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.
H. Rap Brown
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I was miserable in WCW. I knew I wasn't going to go any higher there, and jumping to WWE hadn't even crossed my mind. I couldn't stop wondering, 'Is this it? Is this what I worked my whole life for?'
Eddie Guerrero -
It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.
Ian Williams Battles -
Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.
Adam Davidson -
Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown.
Fanny Brice -
The bar is set pretty low if you want to be a hip, accessible conservative.
P. J. O'Rourke -
If people believe in your material, they will do whatever it takes to get it done. Even if they don't, but you make it as awesome an experience as possible, they will help you reach your goals.
Ilana Glazer
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The threat is desertification. My response is a sandstone wall made from solidified sand.
Magnus Larsson -
There's a right way of doing things and a wrong way. If you've made up your mind to be different from everybody else, I don't suppose I can stop you, but I really don't think it's very considerate.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
English never met a word it didn't like.
Anu Garg -
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
Alfred Nobel -
I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today.
David Herbert Donald -
I'm a big fan of fatherhood, and I'm a big fan of my family.
Jaime Federico Said Camil Saldaña da Gama
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You can rest a lot in an hour or have a whole day and not do it properly. One way I get a quality recharge is to connect with nature. To experience something that's bigger than me.
Lili Taylor -
Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature.
Edgar Degas -
Rather than spend so much time wondering if I'm going to get hired, or is it a problem that I've got this black-tar history, I've just got to keep doing what I'm doing and try to be decent.
Natasha Lyonne -
To follow the path that others have laid before you is a reasonable course of action; therefore all progress is made by unreasonable men.
Steve Jobs -
In our day, a vast majority of people is dependent either on an employer or the government-or both. One way to rate your level of independence might be to measure how long you can survive, feed your family and live in your home after your employer stops paying you anything.
Oliver DeMille -
Mankind today is still making history without having any conscious idea of what it really wants or under what conditions it would stop being unhappy; in fact what it is doing seems to be making itself more unhappy and calling that unhappiness progress.
Norman O. Brown