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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Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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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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Today's children are taught by our culture that we are a cosmic accident. Something slithered out of the primal slime and over billions of years evolved into a human being. We are cousins, ten times removed, to the ape at the zoo eating his own excrement.
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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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I love when I go to conventions, and often it'll be the younger kids who will refer to us by our character names - how can you not find that absolutely charming? I remember when I used to go to conventions when I was a kid when I would stand in long lines to get people's autograph.
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I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand.
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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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A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not. And yet she is spending her life, perhaps, in dreaming of accidental means of unrestrained communion.
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Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in 'justice' or in affirmation of 'rights' or in defense of 'peace' do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.
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There are aspects of human life that are not purely destructive, and there is a need to pay attention to the things around us while they are still around us. And you know, in a way, if you don't pay that attention, the anger is just bitterness.
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I still think the world is better off and safer without Saddam Hussein.
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History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.
