Norman Cousins Quotes
Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
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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.
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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.
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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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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!
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The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.
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I tell my wife she is only the third most important thing after my country and my parents, in that order.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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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.
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As early as 1993, members of bin Laden's group had been planning an attack on the American Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.
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I see things completely differently now.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not usually drawn to memoir - many run the risk of self-aggrandizement or score-settling.
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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.
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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.'
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The best teachers are those who keep students motivated, challenged and flourishing.
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It's weird to not believe in god, but also be so scared of him.
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If you laugh, we just do another take. Laughter is too rare nowadays. If you can bust a gut, let it go, and we'll just go back to one.
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The day I get too big for myself, my mum will slap me down!
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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.
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Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
