Norman Lamm Quotes

Mutual commitment to ideals - yes; the stifling of all dissenting notions - no.

Norman Lamm

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• I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Woman
  • Choice
  • Independence

• I really wanted to find a piano for the farm house. There were so many free pianos on Craigslist, I thought, 'Let's get as many free pianos as we can and stick them all in the barn.' I got eight in a short period of time, only six of which were tunable, but it's still quite funny.

  

  Neko Case
  • Time
  • House
  • Free

• We've got an extraordinarily complex tax system that's full of loopholes that are exploited by special interests. I'd like to see those loopholes closed.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Interest
  • Special
  • Taxes

• As well as ''playgrounds for football, baseball, soccer and kindred games, or any games that are in their nature hazardous, or require fenced enclosures or tend to draw together crowds of people.

  

  Luke Ford
  • People
  • Together
  • Nature

• I have really got it into my head to try to be United States Senator, and, if I could have your support, my chances would be reasonably good. But I know, and acknowledge, that you have as just claims to the place as I have; and therefore I cannot ask you to yield to me, if you are thinking of becoming a candidate, yourself. If, however, you are not, then I should like to be remembered affectionately by you; and also to have you make a mark for me with the Anti-Nebraska members down your way.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Chances
  • Acknowledge
  • Senator

• There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old women might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Women
  • Tea
  • Foundation

• There's a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress.

  

  Tom Berenger
  • Sense Of Humor
  • Pressure
  • Stress

• The job of the leader is to speak to the possibility.

  

  Benjamin Zander
  • Job
  • Leader
  • Possibility

• There never was an age in which so many people were able to write badly.

  

  Israel Zangwill
  • Age
  • Write
  • Badly

• Words alone can rarely justify censorship. If we censor words themselves without looking at the context, we could shut down much of the entertainment industry.

  

  Witold Walczak
  • Industry
  • Entertainment
  • Censorship

• Which would you rather have––an unlimited supply of Chanel No. 5, or freedom?

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Freedom
  • Chanel No.5

• We've endeavored to depict this alien visitation in a different way. It's not going to be the traditional 'ship lands, people come out' kind of stuff. We're trying to do it in ways that would be very strange. A ship hasn't necessarily landed here. There's some other way they've done it. What they're doing to us is very unusual and kind of not quite any way that scientists predicted.

  

  Brannon Braga
  • Strange
  • Predicted
  • Landed

• The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and of high unattainable ideals, are entirely due to that country having adopted for its national hero a man who, according to his own confession, was incapable of telling a lie, and it is not too much to say that the story of George Washington and the cherry-tree has done more harm, and in a shorter space of time, than any other moral tale in the whole of literature.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Time
  • Moral
  • Spirit

• American power in the world relies on these ideals of openness and critical debate.

  

  Joseph Nye
  • World
  • Debate
  • Critical

• We ought always to conform to the manners of the greater number, and so behave as not to draw attention to ourselves. Excess either way shocks, and every man truly wise ought to attend to this in his dress as well as language, never to be affected in anything and follow without being in too great haste the changes of fashion.

  

  Moliere
  • Fashion
  • Language
  • Changes

• Mutual commitment to ideals - yes; the stifling of all dissenting notions - no.

  

  Norman Lamm
  • Ideals
  • Notions
  • Stifling