Norman Angell (Sir Ralph Norman Angell) Quotes
It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion.
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody'. I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A. It's four chapters.
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The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
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I think I've been a great citizen.
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I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.
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I'm the Bjorn Boerg of table tennis.
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I've learned now to have a second title in reserve because, frequently, I come up with titles that seem to make editors' hair fall out.
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Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.
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Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
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It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.
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I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women.
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You don't really gotta rap no more; you can just say the verse with a swag now.
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I never want to be a spectacle, but I also feel like a look should always have a little bit of an edge.
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My God, I have almost never believed in you, and yet I have always loved you.
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And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.
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For me the visual is just as important as the music. I would never record without my red lipstick. It was my way of getting into character, sort of like Method singing.
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I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.
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It's very difficult to do, especially when you get up in age, to go back out every single day with the same intensity.
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When I was a kid in New York I used to go to the zoo. I always liked the zoo. I grew up within walking distance of the Bronx Zoo. And then when my first two children were young, I used to take them to the zoo. Zoos are always interesting. And I make pictures.
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Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.
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There are people who consider it almost unpatriotic to be inquisitive and to be truthful about your opinions.
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During my past career as a journalist, I relished writing obits and equally dreaded phoning relatives for the necessary facts. But to my surprise and great relief, they often wanted to talk - they wanted their recently deceased loved ones recorded in print.
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It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion.
