Norman Cousins Quotes
Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
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I was miserable in WCW. I knew I wasn't going to go any higher there, and jumping to WWE hadn't even crossed my mind. I couldn't stop wondering, 'Is this it? Is this what I worked my whole life for?'
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Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.
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Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.
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Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
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With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.
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I'm like, over love. Crush, smush. I can't. I'm giving up on love at this point. I'm hoping for a crush. Actually, no. I don't want a crush. I want someone to crush on me.
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Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.
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Upon my return from the army to Baltimore in the winter of 1777, I sat next to John Adams in Congress, and upon my whispering to him and asking him if he thought we should succeed in our struggle with Great Britain, he answered me, "Yes-if we fear God and repent of our sins."
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It's always been a dream of mine to get somewhere and to have my mom and dad with me up there.
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It's really hard to get a coffee with someone. I have to call my agent, my agent calls their agent, their agent calls their manager, the manager calls back, the actor sends someone to the manager... then you get, 'Yeah, yeah, I'd love to have dinner at six,' and all I wanted was coffee! It can take, like, six days to get coffee.
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Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.
