Norman Cousins Quotes

Second only to freedom, learning is the most precious option on earth.

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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.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Christian

• 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.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Time
  • Language
  • Internet

• Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Game
  • Team
  • College

• I'm such a perfectionist.

  

  Candice Glover
  • Perfectionist

• Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.

  

  Barbara Block
  • People
  • Want
  • Sharks

• I generally travel with my laptop, a couple of great books, and my iPod.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Great
  • Couple
  • Travel

• At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • School
  • Dance
  • Worst

• I'm cut from a different cloth. I would never moon someone. I was raised in a good family.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Good
  • Different
  • Family

• And, more important, none of Paul's music feels unfamiliar to me.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Music
  • Important
  • Feels

• 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.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Long
  • Character
  • Career

• When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Money
  • Director
  • Envy

• Deus seu Natura

  

  Baruch Spinoza

• 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.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • May
  • Help
  • Knowledge

• 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.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Movie
  • Night
  • Winning

• A Looking In View: Jerry Cantrell on Alice in Chains' legacy. The Skinny (November 13, 2013).

  

  Jerry Cantrell
  • Legacy
  • November

• 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.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Knowledge
  • Literature
  • Chinese

• To me, it's always about quality not quantity.

  

  Amy Lee Evanescence
  • Quality

• Forward movement is a good thing, but I always include that it's not enough, and we have to have a base where we can truly build. That cannot be done inside of the corporate, establishment political parties.

  

  Jill Stein
  • Good
  • Done
  • Political

• The reality is, risk is variable. Those in the financial world know it.

  

  Jason Fried
  • World
  • Reality
  • Risk

• As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

  

  William James
  • Belief
  • Facts
  • Use

• I think it's going to deliver on the promises we've said it's going to and it is going to be the most successful product ever to come into the handheld environment, and it just happens to have a number of different functions.

  

  Ian Jackson
  • Different
  • Environment
  • Successful

• No woman on this whole earth can please me and cook for me and socialise and talk to me like my American black woman.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Earth
  • Socialise
  • American Black Woman

• I've never been willing to lie about my age. Why on earth would I want to tell people I'm 35, which I'm not, and have them say, 'Oh that's nice,' when I could tell them I'm 47, which I am, and have them look at me and go, 'Whoa!'. I'm not afraid of aging. I stopped being afraid of life a long time ago.

  

  Sharon Stone
  • Long
  • Age
  • Earth

• Second only to freedom, learning is the most precious option on earth.

  

  Norman Cousins
  • Earth
  • Precious