Norman Cousins Quotes
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I don't call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also think I know when I don't.
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I think a lot of guys who are on the Internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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I'm such a perfectionist.
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Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.
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Write out the story - rapidly, fluently, and not too critically - following the second or narrative-order synopsis. Change incidents and plot whenever the developing process seems to suggest such change, never being bound by any previous design.
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I generally travel with my laptop, a couple of great books, and my iPod.
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At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.
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I'm cut from a different cloth. I would never moon someone. I was raised in a good family.
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And, more important, none of Paul's music feels unfamiliar to me.
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I consider myself absolutely a character actor, and that's what I want as a career. I don't need to be the lead star or any of that, as long as I'm doing stuff that I'm proud of, really.
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When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.
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Deus seu Natura
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Morally relevant emotions are essential for living in social groups and they provide the basis on which we may construct conceptual frameworks that help guide our actions, but human beings should more accurately be thought of as being endowed with morally relevant capacities rather than innate moral knowledge.
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Now that this mess is almost behind me – I just have one last request: HBO, when you make the movie about this whole NBC late night fiasco, I’d like to be played by Academy-Award winning actress Tilda Swinton.
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A Looking In View: Jerry Cantrell on Alice in Chains' legacy. The Skinny (November 13, 2013).
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While in the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them, as anybody who has a knowledge of Chinese literature will testify.
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To me, it's always about quality not quantity.
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On 'Arrow,' we have Ray Palmer and Roy Harper, and if you call Roy 'Ray' and Ray 'Roy,' you have to put money into the jar.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: 'Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the Earth.'
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I love you much most beautiful darling more than anyone on the earth and I like you better than everything in the sky.
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The energies are what blows my mind. They drag everything out of you, and sometimes your own soul. You really have to mentally be stable, or else you'll lose it.
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Second only to freedom, learning is the most precious option on earth.
