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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Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.
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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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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.
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The reality is, risk is variable. Those in the financial world know it.
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I think if you're talented and not desperate to do any film that comes your way, and are doing justice to all your roles, then you're fine, because you can't predict the rest. You also can't predict the audience's reaction.
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God loves an idle rainbow, Not less than labouring seas.
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I have always been thankful that so many of our country's greatest leaders and statesmen were able to be on this earth at the same time and place to draft the Constitution.
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Second only to freedom, learning is the most precious option on earth.
