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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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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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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The United States of America was formed to honor the word of God.
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Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.
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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
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The world is hung up on food-based biofuels. Not only are they the wrong thing, they're the uneconomic thing.
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I mean, is it journalism? Is it just opinion? Are we putting facts out there? Are we trying to uncover stories? And so, the issue comes up, what is the liability?
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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.
