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 have always liked to get my pictures taken, and I like taking care of my looks. But, I am not one to use beauty products and treatments.
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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 am so saddened by the loss of our dear friend, Bonnie Franklin. She was just full of light and love. Bonnie will be very much missed by all the people she touched with her love.
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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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Well, I am ploughing on my canvases as they do on their fields (the peasants). It goes badly enough in our profession - in fact that has always been so, but at the moment it is very bad.
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There's a vast difference between having a carload of miscellaneous facts sloshing around loose in your head and getting all mixed up in transit, and carrying the same assortment properly boxed and crated for convenient handling and immediate delivery.
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Just as there are laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created or destroyed. But one can be converted into the other.
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The dreary flies, lazy and casual, Stick to the ceiling, buzz along the wall. O heart, the spider shuffles from the mould Weaving, between the pinks and grapes, his pall.
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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.
