Larry Norman Quotes
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Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.
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I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism or as conversation or action. It's clickbait.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down.
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What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.
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'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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I'm not a singer. In 'Bye Bye Birdie,' I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during 'Put on a Happy Face.'
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Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.
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Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.
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In our world, we have this huge focus on vicarious living - politicians, movie stars, athletes, coaches, all these people. What our research has shown very clearly is that people who are really happier and have more meaningful lives are people that focus on living their own lives.
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You gotta learn to laugh, it's the way to true love.
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Life is God's art.
