Norman Cousins Quotes
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All I did my first year at Vogue was Xerox.
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Missing from much of the public debate is discussion of the simple fact that lurking behind every terroristic act is a specific political antecedent. That does not justify either the perpetrator or his political cause. Nonetheless, the fact is that almost all terrorist activity originates from some political conflict and is sustained by it as well.
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I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.
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If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
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I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Argentinean soccer. I get really worked up watching soccer. It's in my blood.
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I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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There are downsides to implicitly trusting banks, as the 2008 financial crisis showed.
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In the future, when people look back at the early days of Bitcoin, they'll say, 'It was so obvious that the ability to move money anywhere, instantly, at near-zero cost would be a huge success.
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Google never knew how successful key words would be.
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Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.
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Growing up, I wasn't the most vocal kid in the world. I feel like I learned through observation, and usually, when you're watching things, you're not speaking. That sort of metastasized in a way that I began to participate less and less in the world.
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I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as an artist. That's where I want to go. Explore different things, different characters, in film, and just everything!
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We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7.50 for Steven Spielberg's next epic than it is to watch my home movies for free. Even for me.
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I'm a religious broadcaster.
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I'm pretty obsessed with 'The Real Housewives of New Jersey.' I usually watch it on the bus after a show with my husband Jimi. As much as he will deny it, he loves the show as much as I do.
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I would rather Google other people than Google myself.
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We do not want to leave Germany forever. Something I would not be able to manage at all, since my roots sit too deep in German soil.
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The man responsible for keeping Americans safe from another terrorist attack on American soil for nearly seven years now will go down in history as one of America's greatest presidents.
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Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.
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You learn more from losing than winning. You learn how to keep going.
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Winning had become kind of automatic, but I realized in 2008 that at any moment that could be taken away from me.
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Based on what our country stands for. We can't fail to stand for democracy.
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He who keeps his cool best wins.
