Norman Cousins Quotes
People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.
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I feel the happiest when I'm at the golf course. And I feel calm when I'm on the golf course. I think I'm just a much better person when I'm on the golf course.
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The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
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I have personally seen Ted Cruz stand up and fight on the issues that matter the most to conservatives, even when it wasn't popular in Congress.
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I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.
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Given the accelerating velocity of history, we should begin charting deliberately the next phase in its trajectory.
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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
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My passion is capturing what it feels like to love, be it romantic or otherwise. I love to watch two people realize what they meant for each other - and that goes across all media, books, TV, movies, personal essays; everything.
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I'm one of the ones who believed the Iraq War was a complete mistake from the very beginning.
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I lived in Paris for six months when I was sixteen. It was a fend-for-yourself environment.
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People always ask is it hard being an entrepreneur and a mum, and the answer is 'yes.'
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Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally.
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There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.
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Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, 'If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?'
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The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances.
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Congress ought to wipe the stain of barbaric lynching from the banners of a free and orderly representative democracy.
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Opinions differ as to the reasons why he became the futile laborer of the underworld. To begin with, he is accused of a certain levity in regard to the gods. He stole their secrets.
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Study the field that you want to get into and know everything about it.
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I like to question cultural biases wherever I go, and I question Islamophobia as much as I question anti-western sentiment because I think all extremist ideologies are very similar.
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The truth is that I'm an idiot. I am. I don't do things by the rules sometimes. I say things that I probably shouldn't say. I push buttons. I deserve to be made fun of. And I feel like, as soon as you can make fun of something, it instantly removes the fear.
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I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young - people were either villainous or wonderful. They were painted in very bright colours. The bad side of it - and there is a corollary to everything - is that when we get older, we fuss more. I used to despise people who fussed.
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Am I allowed to call myself working-class now? Because obviously I'm now very rich.
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Nothing is sure in London, except expense.
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People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.
