Norman O. Brown (Norman Oliver Brown) Quotes
Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.
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Love is the one wild card.
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I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
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With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
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People like music when they're in love, but they don't need it as much. You need music when you're missing someone or you're pining for someone or you're forgetting someone or you're trying to process what just happened.
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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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It takes people a while to trust you.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma.
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My M.O. is just do what you do and don't feel like you have to make apologies for it. I'm sure there will come a point when I have to apologize for something, but not yet.
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My forte is awkwardness.
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot. But a lot of effective and interesting radio is based on one character who reacts to the world.
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We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.
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I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.
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I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.
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I was excited by the idea of playing a Nazi.
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We all desire things that we believe we cannot have, and so my films reflect that again and again. The mystery must be solved, the goal attained.
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We have got to stop being a society that turns our heads and looks the other way.
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Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
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Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith.
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The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no eidos, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.
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Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.
