Norman O. Brown (Norman Oliver Brown) Quotes
History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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Researchers looked at news programs on major broadcast and cable networks between 2008 and 2012 and found that of those labeled as domestic terrorists, 81% were identifiable as Muslims - this despite the fact that FBI reports from the period studied revealed that only 6% of domestic terrorist suspects were Muslim.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
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Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.
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I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
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I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.
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It made me hungry. I feel like I'm in a program that really helped me individually as a player. I feel like I'm with a group of guys that are like my best friends.
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You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.
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Contrary to common belief, the presumption of innocence applies only inside a courtroom. It has no applicability elsewhere, although the media do not seem to be aware of this.
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I love puns. I've been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situation. It really is the highest form of humor.
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There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.
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When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot to sort of destabilize our country, or this is an American agenda.
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Politics, I now understand, is at its best when it enlightens us via an opponent's insight.
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Muslim discourse is currently a tissue of myths, conspiracy theories, and exhortations to recapture the glories of the seventh century.
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Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.
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I had a very simple life growing up in the farm country outside of Perugia, and biscotti and warm milk with a tiny bit of coffee were a big part of my morning ritual before walking to school.
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People willy-nilly borrow for consumption. Civil servants willy-nilly borrow for consumption and then wonder why they don't have enough money at the end of the month.
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People of similar political persuasions tend to flock together.
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A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together.
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There is no doubt of the essential nobility of that man who pours into life the honest vigor of his toil, over those who compose the feathery foam of fashion that sweeps along Broadway; who consider the insignia of honor to consist in wealth and indolence; and who, ignoring the family history, paint coats of arms to cover up the leather aprons of their grandfathers.
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History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.
