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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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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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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Let me say that I think the economic history of the last 150 years clearly shows that if you want to industrialize a country in a short period, let us say 20 years, and you don't have a well-developed private sector, entrepreneurial class, then central planning is important.
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I was 16 and did a play at school. I was a rather good student... And then I did a play when I was 16 and completely lost all my concentration for academics.
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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
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This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war.
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I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends.
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Do I wish that things were more orderly in Washington and rational and people listened to the best arguments and compromised and operated in a more thoughtful and organized fashion? Absolutely. But when you look at history that's been the exception rather than the norm.
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The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.
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You don't need to hire a dog therapist, you just need to wake up at 7 am and open the fucking door!
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Daniel Masters is a master of the commodities markets with over 30 years experience. His bitcoin strategy is based on the parallels he sees from the oil industry in 1999 to the current state of bitcoin.
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Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.
