Norman Davies Quotes
Serenity is the balance between good and bad, life and death, horrors and pleasures. Life is, as it were, defined by death. If there wasn't death of things, then there wouldn't be any life to celebrate.
Quotes to Explore
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We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!
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America is another name for opportunity.
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If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
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Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
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Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.
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I really saw myself as the quintessential Cinderella. I think that's when I really thought about how I wanted to do something else and get away from all that.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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I don't like family stories forcefully mixed with commercial elements.
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I cannot believe that I get a tour bus. I've been traveling in a van for 15 years. I used to look at people who were on buses and be like, 'Whoa, man, some day.'
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Transcendental meditation is something that can be defined as a means to do what one wants to do in a better way, a right way, for maximum results.
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Halston was one of the hardest-working designers I have come across. The way he cut, moulded, manipulated and draped fabric was inspiring. I was submerged into the Halston subculture alongside Andy Warhol, Liza Minnelli, Elizabeth Taylor and Truman Capote. They shaped who I have become as a designer.
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I'm just focused on exploring new opportunities.
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There is a school in Israel called Hand in Hand which I support. There Arab and Jewish students study together on a daily basis.
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I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.
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You cannot properly bring up children when you are 69 or 70 and they are 12 and at the height of their madness. You can physically do it, but I don't think it's morally justified.
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When you talk about mandatory minimums, it created a lot of unfairness in our sentencing.
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And then once in Australia, I really hit the weights hard.
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Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer.
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Carlos Beruff supported Charlie Crist after he left the Republican Party. Does that should like someone who is a conservative Republican?
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I continually get more information about a subject after the book has been published.
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Serenity is the balance between good and bad, life and death, horrors and pleasures. Life is, as it were, defined by death. If there wasn't death of things, then there wouldn't be any life to celebrate.
