Norman Cousins Quotes

Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.

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• If the day comes where I can have my own action figure... I defy any actor to say that's not a good day.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Good
  • Action
  • Day

• The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.

  

  Hans Blix
  • World
  • War
  • Decision

• The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Work
  • Forever
  • Productivity

• They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There's only one of those.

  

  T-Pain
  • Me
  • Pain
  • Write

• Yeah, I'm old as the hills and you would think I'd be out to pasture someplace because I've done everything, but nothing has changed.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Done
  • Think
  • You

• Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Long
  • Enough
  • Literature

• There should be no censorship of mail.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Should
  • Censorship
  • Mail

• We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • World
  • Responsibility
  • Walk

• The neighbors could be as mad as they want, but I'm not running a business at the house. It's just a location. It will never get me out of here, because I don't have offices set up at my house, and that's what the township thinks.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Business
  • House
  • Running

• The land and the ocean are living, breathing entities that supported us, clothed us, fed us, and nurtured our culture from time immemorial.

  

  Eden Robinson
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Ocean

• I make work a bit like how you mix cocktails - with ingredients like budget, history and location.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Work
  • History
  • Budget

• I think Paul Weitz is a really amazing director, obviously with tons of acclaim and stuff, but I still think he is underrated. And I think he's amazing to work with, so I was super lucky.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Work
  • Think
  • Amazing

• And in fact, one of the central reasons why I never got involved with any drugs or anything is that I remember talking to people in maybe 1975 who saw Hendrix but couldn't remember it. I was like, 'How could that be?'

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Why
  • Remember

• I still when I wake up hit the ground running; and having an illness, I'm only one of hundreds of thousands of people that live with an illness, and I'm just in awe of the bravery and dignity of the people I see at the hospital.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• Venice, the most touristy place in the world, is still just completely magic to me.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • World
  • Me
  • Magic

• There were three great child singing stars: Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder and Jackie Washington.

  

  Don Cornelius
  • Great
  • Singing
  • Wonder

• I'm a lifelong 'Doctor Who' fan. Like, Peter Davison/Colin Baker, lifelong fan.

  

  Andrew Kreisberg

• France was given up to fire and bloodshed, she experienced famine, she experienced the worst of things, she was nearly chopped up in pieces forever because of the decision... to exclude, to brand one party as guilty and annihilate them.

  

  Emmanuel Macron
  • Party
  • Decision
  • Forever

• Is advertising a profession, like law or medicine? How many new parents clutch their baby to their breast and declare, 'I want this child to grow up to be a media planner'?

  

  Jef I. Richards
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Law

• Even if you live in New York City, you can have a little basil plant in your window, and that could be considered urban farming.

  

  Novella Carpenter
  • Plant
  • Window
  • Urban

• If the Fleeting World is but a long dream, it does not matter whether one is young or old.

  

  Bai Juyi
  • World
  • Long
  • Dream

• I work for three or four hours a day, in the late morning and early afternoon. Then I go out for a walk and come back in time for a large gin and tonic.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Time
  • Work
  • Morning

• People think that saving the planet or finding their place in that effort is a really overwhelming thought.

  

  Nikki Reed
  • Thought
  • Planet
  • Saving

• Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.

  

  Norman Cousins
  • Acceptance
  • Negative
  • Diagnosis