Norman O. Brown (Norman Oliver Brown) Quotes
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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Wittiness turns me on more than anything else.
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I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.
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There have been times - and not just on 'The Newsroom,' but on 'The West Wing,' 'Sports Night,' 'Studio 60'... - where it was hard to look the cast and crew in the eye, when I put a script on the table that I knew just wasn't good enough.
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This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.
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We all know him: everybody has an Archie Bunker in their family, so you love to laugh at him, and you never take it personally; everybody just has a ball laughing at him.
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the major achievement of President Obama's first term.
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When moms stayed home, it was easier just to let the kids play around the house. But as women entered the workplace and the extended family dissolved, someone else had to pick up the slack on the child-care front. Extracurricular activities fit the bill perfectly, promising not only supervision but also enrichment.
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Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.
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It's very liberating to cut your hair.
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As obvious as it sounds, I strongly recommend shopping at a specialty bike store. They are the experts, and they will be able to help you decide which bike is best for you.
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The worst thing you can do after a test screening is slash it for the lowest common denominator.
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I'm the happiest when I'm in the studio, not on a beauty parade.
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I am working again on my painting 'Moscow' 'Moscow I' ('Mockba I'), 1916. It is slowly taking shape in my imagination. And what was in the realm of wishing is now assuming real forms. What I have been lacking with this idea was depth and richness of sound, very earnest, complex, and easy at the same time.
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We've got to decide that we want to live in a world that is sane and happy and healthy, and that everyone deserves that.
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There is something about Christmas that requires a rug rat. Little kids make Christmas fun. I wonder if could rent one for the holidays. When I was tiny we would by a real tree and stay up late drinking hot chocolate and finding just the right place for the special decorations.
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Reality is, you have to work harder the older you get.
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See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.
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The insane do not share the normal prejudice in favor of external reality.
