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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The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.
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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 thought they had one of top teams in the country before the season and after watching them play today, I still believe that. They are very physical and they are very deep.
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An audience is the perfect thing to unleash venom and hate on. It doesn't necessarily mean you hate everyone in the audience but when you've got a so-called adoring mass in front of you, it's a perfect target for that kind of disgust. Sometimes you find yourself in a position where you're venting your disgust on an audience and a lot of them keep coming back 'cos they actually like that aspect. In a way that diffuses the feeling and you don't gel the same release.
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Be the kind of person that sees an obstacle as a Mountain, and throws on their hiking gear
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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.
