Charles Eliot Norton Quotes

The refuge from pessimism is the good men and women at any time existing in the world, -they keep faith and happiness alive.

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• The connection I make with being young and growing up is, like, the feeling of not being crushed by the world. Having an idea, thinking you can do it.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
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• It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • World
  • Good
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• The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.

  

  Adam Ostrow
  • World
  • Society
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• I'm the best in the world; thank you, Jesus, for that.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
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• Israeli teachers are not required to hold an academic degree, and their salaries are the lowest in the Western world.

  

  Yair Lapid
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• I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
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  • Like
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• 'Lord of the Rings' was about saving the world, big time, big duties.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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  • Lord

• There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world.

  

  Jackie Stewart
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• I do not follow the rules of fashion, and I don't like to be considered a man of the world of fashion. I like to call it the 'style industry' because we try to work on taste.

  

  Lapo Elkann
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  • Work
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• If you are too nice, you will just get eaten alive. The football world is not always a nice place.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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  • Nice
  • Football

• In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
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  • Thinking
  • Habits

• 'Cause when you got love, like we got love.I'm holding on to heaven, holding onto you.When you got one, like I got one.Anyway you looking, it's a hell of a view.Don't know where we're gonna be, but I know we're be sitting on top of the world.So keep hanging onto me.Yeah, don't you wanna be sitting on top of the world?Top of the world.

  

  Tim McGraw
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  • Heaven

• I'm a New Yorker. I was there during 9/11, and I saw how, not only New York City stopped for a moment, we all took an inhale and exhale at the same time - the world united at that time, and it changed my life. I think millions of people were forever changed.

  

  Aisha Hinds
  • People
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  • Time

• I'm not sure that, for a lot of people, the real world is an easy place to live in. And yet we still soldier on.

  

  Jeph Loeb
  • People
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  • Live

• Unlike Facebook or Instagram, Twitter's core experience isn't about photos. It's a world of text, with occasional embedded photos, animated gifs, and short video clips.

  

  Om Malik
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• I don't have no story. Everybody wants this Hollywood story, but the world don't owe you nothing, man. It's what you owe the world.

  

  Bernie Mac
  • World

• I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes.

  

  Aleksandr Kuprin
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  • Live

• Before we condemn the jurors who acquitted George Zimmerman, we should remember that they were asked to do something extraordinary. They were asked to listen to the facts and apply the law to the best of their ability in a case the world was watching.

  

  Alafair Burke
  • World
  • Remember
  • Law

• My family thought it was insanity for me to go into the theater rather than to get an education.

  

  Clarice Taylor
  • Family
  • Education
  • Insanity

• Hydraulic fracking is very much a necessary part of the future of natural gas.

  

  Ken Salazar
  • Future

• There are times when I'll send a manuscript to an editor, and I'll think it is the most likely project I've ever sent them. And they might call me the next morning and say they couldn't tolerate it. That happens so frequently that I've given up any expectation of knowing what anybody's going to like.

  

  Bill Clegg
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Expectation

• My work is therapeutic: 'Monster's Ball,' 'Woodsman' and 'Shadowboxer,' because I don't go to therapy, and I sort of live life through my films.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own tastes.

  

  Marcel Duchamp

• The refuge from pessimism is the good men and women at any time existing in the world, -they keep faith and happiness alive.

  

  Charles Eliot Norton
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