Norman Maclean Quotes
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A lot of times, I'm singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.
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I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.
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I do things right. No shortcuts.
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When I went to university in Colorado, I was encouraged to write very innovative, experimental things, and some of the short stories in 'Bearded Ladies' are a little bit experimental.
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I love to pitch things that I believe in and products that I love to use.
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The only things I'm competitive in are backgammon and poker.
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I love to personalize things. I love to make things my own. I like to name everything - from cars to iPhones to the socks I just lost.
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I'm getting to be a real pro at coming into things midstream and trying to catch up.
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The biggest things in life are not materials.
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Whenever there's negotiations, there's things that you absolutely love, and there's things that you accept.
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Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.
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I learned mainly through television, but I learned how to do mosaic, where you can buy stones or things of that nature. But also where you bust the tile to decorate pots for flowers or table tops. Lots of different things. Wherever you want it, you can mosaic just about anything. It took me about two weeks to do a big birdbath.
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Some things in literature are inexplicable.
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We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.
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Don't underestimate the things that I will do.
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For me, I find that even though I've accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn't give me a sense of satisfaction.
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I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition.
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Things last either too long, or not long enough.
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God is not the author of all things, but of good only.
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Take great delight in even the smallest of things.
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In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People wanted to be like Americans. In contrast, when I got here, I saw prosperous middle-class American college students wanting to somehow join the Third World.
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So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature.
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What James Madison and the other men of his generation had in mind when they wrote the First Amendment was that there should be no official relationship of any character between government and any church or many churches, and no levying of taxes for the support of any church, or many churches, or all churches, or any institution conducted by any of them.
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Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.
