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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There's nothing funnier than religion. Try explaining it to a kid. I had it all wrong when I was a kid.
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I like that old style of country music - it seems to me that a lot of the modern country music is rehashed rock n' roll.
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When you come from an environment that's military, and they don't stress that topic of aesthetics or beauty pageants and makeup, there are a lot of things you just don't have that city girls have. Or the country girl who goes to movies and dreams of going to Hollywood as an actress.
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When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.
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I think fiction rescues history from its confusions.
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History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.
