Norman Mailer Quotes
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With great artists like Elvis, sometimes the songs weren't the greatest thing about him. When I tried to perform some of the songs, I noticed some of the tunes weren't all that brilliant, but it was the performance that sold them.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.
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The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.
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And people are intrigued if I really am as grumpy in real life. People feel a bit let down if I'm laughing or smiling.
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I am excited about this. We've got half of our goal. I'd love to see us get a little bit more than half our goal and not be so deeply into this thing going into Sunday, but I feel good about everything.
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Uninfluenced by others, he never knew he influenced them; he had no idea they liked him.
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We underestimate the distance between ourselves and others. Not just inferential distance, but distances of temperament and ability, distances of situation and resource, distances of unspoken knowledge and unnoticed skills and luck, distances of interior landscape.
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We need not only open trading systems, but systems that work for people around the world - taking into account not only the bottom line, but the well-being of working men and women, the protection of children against sweatshop labor, and the protection of the environment.
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When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values.
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Your job as a trial attorney is to try to convey to the jury the essence of the people you represent.
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When judging a horoscope, it is of prime importance that we take into consideration the social and racial standing of the individual, for configurations which are of great significance in the horoscope of an educated Caucasian may mean little or nothing in the figure of a Chinese Coolie and vice versa.
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I'm not perfect.
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Rage is by no means an automatic reaction to misery and suffering as such; no one reacts with rage to an incurable disease or to an earthquake or, for that matter, to social conditions that seem to be unchangeable. Only where there is reason to suspect that conditions could be changed and are not does rage arise.
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It was very, very challenging being on this thing called the gimbal. It would throw you around, give you whiplash, and they'd tie you down.
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Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.
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The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
