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 need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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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 live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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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 got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.
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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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Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.
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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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A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the worst model I've heard of in my life. It's just idiotic. Why wouldn't you just wait for the good ones?
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Although other animals cannot reason nor speak the way humans do, this does not give us the right to do with them as we like. Even though our supposed possession of a soul and superior intelligence are used to create an arbitrary dividing line over rights, the fact remains that all animals have the capacity to experience pain and suffering, and in suffering they are our equals.
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I don't know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent I'm hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read it, it will scare the pants off of them.
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History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis - real or manufactured.
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I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.
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History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.
