Norman Braman Quotes
What's success all about? What's philanthropy all about? Let's think of our legacy, following in the footsteps of some great Americans like the Carnegies and the Mellons who used their wealth for quality purposes.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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I find that I can't work and listen to radio – either I find I don't like it and it distracts me, or I do like it and I want to listen to it.
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Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.
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Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.
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I didn't really have a mentor, but I have always definitely been inspired by the '70s - the Stones, Patti Smith, Anita Pallenberg.
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I feel like all Londoners relate more to New York - L.A. doesn't feel like a 'city' city. It's like a sleepy town.
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I love kids with a passion I usually reserve for hot cheese, miniature chairs, and Prince concerts, but I feel no stress to reproduce simply because of a fear of withering eggs.
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I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.
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What's fun is that the characters in 'Broad City' are rushing and hustling, and our process reflects that.
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Éramos yo y el mar. Y el mar estaba solo y solo yo. Uno de los dos faltaba.
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My favorite actors are people who I don't know anything about, and I can project any character onto them.
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I'm a human entropy producer.
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It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than anything I know of to bring about discord among our resident aliens.
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I don't really go out that much, if I'm honest. I'm quite a recluse. If I had my way, I'd probably be at home most of the time with a book and a cup of tea or glass of wine.
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I really love my chosen craft. No matter whether it's disappearing or disappeared from the mainstream, that's really been where my mind and heart is.
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I umpired for 25 years and can honestly say I never called one wrong in my heart.
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Research promoted by NARA within a major coalition of Federal and private sector research partners has at last demonstrated that an Electronic Records Archives can be built.
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Is now the time to legalize prostitution?
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What's success all about? What's philanthropy all about? Let's think of our legacy, following in the footsteps of some great Americans like the Carnegies and the Mellons who used their wealth for quality purposes.
