Norman Cousins Quotes

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

Norman Cousins

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• If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• I couldn't be more proud to introduce Anne-Marie Duff, a phenomenal actress who is bursting on the world stage, to Broadway audiences as Lady Macbeth.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • World
  • Proud
  • Broadway

• First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • You
  • Drink
  • New Years

• If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • God
  • Eat
  • Sugar

• I want to hang out with my friends. I want to hang out with my family - well, I sometimes want to hang out with my family!

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Want

• The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Work
  • Long
  • Bed

• I tell my wife she is only the third most important thing after my country and my parents, in that order.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Important
  • Country
  • She

• Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

• I enjoy my life. The fame part of it freaked me out for a little while, and there are definitely times when it's not so great to be special and known by everybody - you know, when you're wearing the wrong thing, or just in a vulnerable place. But I'm good with my life now.

  

  Jim Carrey
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• As early as 1993, members of bin Laden's group had been planning an attack on the American Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • American
  • Planning

• I see things completely differently now.

  

  Mary Pierce

• I was born partially deaf and suffered from labyrinthitis, which affected my balance. I had numerous ear infections and spent my childhood in and out of hospital having operations.

  

  Jameela Jamil
  • Childhood
  • Balance

• I have publicly talked about Mexico's need to open ourselves up to the participation of the private sector in the energy sector, however this doesn't mean privatizing state-run companies.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Up
  • Energy

• The belief that we are what the media says we are, what people perceive we are, is soon to be what we think we are. We are treated based on this warped perception. It is hard to get away from it.

  

  Kevin Eubanks
  • People
  • Perception

• I'm not usually drawn to memoir - many run the risk of self-aggrandizement or score-settling.

  

  Alice McDermott
  • Risk

• There's no one I trust in show business more than Sabrina Wind. She's my eyes and ears when I can't be there. She weighs in on everything, from scripts to sets to advertising.

  

  Marc Cherry
  • She
  • Business
  • Eyes

• The Space Shuttle will stop directly below the Space Station and Sergei and I will be looking out two different windows looking straight down at the Space Shuttle.

  

  John L. Phillips
  • Different
  • Stop
  • Space

• I'd rather enjoy meals, order bottles of red wine and eat creme brulee at the end of dinner. Then, when they call you for a photo shoot, you just go, 'Okay, time to hit the treadmill.'

  

  Armie Hammer
  • Time
  • Red
  • Wine

• I fell in love - that is the only expression I can think of - at once, and am still at the mercy of words, though sometimes now, knowing a little of their behavior very well, I think I can influence them slightly and have even learned to beat them now and then, which they appear to enjoy.

  

  Dylan Thomas
  • Words
  • Mercy

• My ideal is a book that is perfect on every page, that gives you tremendous aesthetic joy on every page. I suppose I am trying to write such a book.

  

  James Salter
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Perfect

• One of my great memories of John is from when we were having some argument. I was disagreeing and we were calling each other names. We let it settle for a second and then he lowered his glasses and he said: "It's only me." And then he put his glasses back on again. To me, that was John. Those were the moments when I actually saw him without the facade, the armor, which I loved as well, like anyone else. It was a beautiful suit of armor. But it was wonderful when he let the visor down and you'd just see the John Lennon that he was frightened to reveal to the world.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • World
  • Great
  • Beautiful

• Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Truth

• Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

  

  Norman Cousins
  • Optimistic
  • Pessimism
  • Wasting