Norman Cousins Quotes

The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth.

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• Yes, it's annoying that Hamlet doesn't kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, but if he did kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, there wouldn't be a play. He has to be annoying, if you will, and not do what would be the thing to do.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • You
  • Play
  • Will

• No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Power
  • Science
  • Politics

• People always say 'humbling,' but I actually think it's quite inflating being nominated for an award. It's wonderful; it's a great feeling.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • People
  • Great
  • Think

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• I want more movies like 'Straight Outta Compton.' Showing our stories of triumph, we'll make it through, and we'll get to something better.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Want
  • Better
  • Movies

• I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Morning

• The case is I talk for a living, so I should be able to say anything I want to say regardless of how you feel. What we're starting to deal with now is your opinion matters, but to be quite honest, your opinion means nothing.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Want
  • You
  • Opinion

• O fading honours of the dead!O high ambition, lowly laid!

  

  Walter Scott
  • High
  • Ambition

• As an actor, whether I'm playing Othello on stage or David Estes on 'Homeland,' that ability to give into your imagination is something that I enjoy.

  

  David Harewood
  • Imagination

• Do I have a long-term plan? Kind of. I have a general direction, I think. But it's funny what comes down the pike.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Long
  • Funny

• If you have a crisis, whether on a ship or wherever, there are heroes who rise above it.

  

  Jerry Bruckheimer

• '99.9%' is the end product of years and years of me going through multiple styles and interests.

  

  Kaytranada

• I try to keep my filters simple. I don't do anything major to my photos.

  

  Kendall Jenner
  • Simple

• At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.

  

  Elena Roger
  • Age
  • Singing
  • Professional

• The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.

  

  Edward Levi
  • Power
  • Commitment

• I really wasted a lot of time in my 20s.

  

  Kristian Nairn
  • Time

• For nothing can be greater than seduction itself, not even the order that destroys it.

  

  Jean Baudrillard
  • Seduction

• A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led to a series of books about Bedlam Farm and about dogs, rural life, lambing and herding sheep.

  

  Jon Katz
  • Life
  • Inspired

• Not hippie - my parents were not hippies - but they were very supportive and encouraging, and that does a lot for someone, and it gives them a lot of confidence.

  

  Jenna Elfman
  • Parents
  • Confidence
  • Encouraging

• I always felt mean, jogging back over the logging road,As if I had broken the natural order of things in that swampland;Disturbed some rhythm, old and of vast importance,By pulling off flesh from the living planet;As if I had committed, against the whole scheme of life, a desecration.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Broken
  • Natural
  • Importance

• Everyone wants to be a dyke now; everyone craves our freedom, guts, and knowing looks.

  

  Susie Bright
  • Freedom
  • Looks
  • Wants

• I liked it because it was such a dangerous script and showed just what human beings are capable of. Here was a movie in which Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt, who always win in every movie they ever do, simply don't win. I felt that was outrageous for a commercial movie.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Movie
  • Winning
  • Humans

• The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

  

  William Osler
  • Success
  • inspirational
  • Firsts

• The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth.

  

  Norman Cousins
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