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

• There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much about, and I don't. We just keep on trucking, and I like the way my... I think there should be 'professional is professional, and personal is personal,' and that's just how I'm going to keep it.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Worry
  • Professional
  • Media

• 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

• Sometimes you work with somebody you've never heard of because you just feel like working.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Work

• 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

• Anybody I grew up with in this area - they're still a mate. Lots of people in the Prahran area gave me my first go. Sold me my trucks on... I don't know, 100 deposit and 100 a month. Without the support of those guys, you'd still sort of be driving a truck.

  

  Lindsay Fox
  • People
  • Up
  • Support

• For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.

  

  Chief Joseph
  • Time
  • Men
  • Water

• 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

• I used to be a Geico Caveman for live events. I was a corporate mascot. It was the silliest job. It was actually awesome and fun, but it was retarded.

  

  Eric Andre
  • Live
  • Job
  • Fun

• 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 am relieved that I can pay back my school loans.

  

  Amy Sherald
  • School

• I like the idea of going out with a woman and not doing anything, and just eating dinner and talking, and that's cool, too. So, someone might look at me and say, "No way, man. He's just banging strippers." And I do that, but not all the time.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Men
  • Eating
  • Dinner

• It became obvious to me that the generation who changed the world were my parents' generation, and not only in terms of the Second World War, but if you look at all the social legislation of the '60s - abortion, homosexual law reform, equal pay - it wasn't done by my generation; it was done by people who were adults.

  

  Linda Grant
  • People
  • World
  • Done

• I always liked circuses, so I would have enjoyed that.

  

  Lee Hazlewood

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

  

  Norman Cousins
  • Optimistic
  • Pessimism
  • Wasting