Larry Norman Quotes
I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate results of what I am saying or doing or writing.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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I don't get recognised that much in the street.
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When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by demonstrating they are each a soul, not a material animal.
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Ideas come mostly bottoms-up. They come when you have a free flow of ideas and you have people able to combine multiple ideas into one concept... And you've got to have competition, too. You've got to say, 'We're going to have 10 different ideas, nine of them are going to fail, and the one that does the best is going to move forward.'
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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I get over-excited by every opportunity that comes my way. I end up doing too much.
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In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.
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I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
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It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state.
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
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Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling it time, you divide it into days and nights, months, years, hours, minutes, etc. Time is immaterial for the Path of Knowledge.
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Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.
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My first YA novel, not many people have read. It's a fickle business. There's a degree of timing and luck involved.
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You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'
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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
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I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it.
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Would you rather have an overachieving 3-Star, or an underachieving 5-Star?
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I think Newt Gingrich has a proven track record of changing Washington and getting results.
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The results of action depends upon the very quality of the action.
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My lighting tends to use contrast as a reflection of the stakes in the scene. The higher the stakes, the more I feel I can get away with an exaggerated contrast.
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Literary truth is not the truth of the biographer or the reporter, it’s not a police report or a sentence handed down by a court. It’s not even the plausibility of a well-constructed narrative. Literary truth is entirely a matter of wording and is directly proportional to the energy that one is able to impress on the sentence. And when it works, there is no stereotype or cliché of popular literature that resists it. It reanimates, revives, subjects everything to its needs.
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I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate results of what I am saying or doing or writing.
