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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Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.
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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 thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
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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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What's important is for us to be aware that our actions have repercussions.
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Call it not vain;-they do not err,Who say, that when the Poet dies,Mute Nature mourns her worshipper,And celebrates his obsequies.
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Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment.
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Isnt it strange some people make You feel so tired inside, Your thoughts begin to shrivel up Like leaves all brown and dried!But when youre with some other ones Its stranger still to find Your thought as thick as fireflies All shiny in your mind!
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Second only to freedom, learning is the most precious option on earth.
