Charles Eliot Norton Quotes
The loss of religious faith among the most civilized portion of the race is a step from childishness toward maturity.
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Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.
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I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
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I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.
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I read widely - for news, the arts, science, for entertainment, and the value of being informed - and, as a fiction writer, I can't help transposing what I learn into the scenario for a novel or story.
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At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
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The E.U. needs a strategy that marries a shared vision to common action.
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I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.
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You're an artist when you're writing, a businessperson the rest of the time.
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Baby why'd you leave me, why'd you have to go; I was counting on forever, now I'll never know.
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Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me.
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I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it.
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The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature.
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I am especially proud of taking on issues most central to the health of our American democracy.
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I know myself pretty well, and I know what I'm good at, but I also recognize when others may be better and so support and empower that.
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I always want to live long enough to finish the book I'm working on and see it published. But then I start another book before the previous one is in the stores, so I always have a reason to go on.
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I'm ticking things off my list: I had a tumor removed; I had spinal surgery; I had four surgeries in three months.
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And the issues I think are important in Louisiana right now happen to be health care and education. And those are two areas that the federal government can play a very important role. And I think I can be effective in trying to help our state from the Washington scene.
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It's really hard to find a love song that is real. That's when you really strike a chord with somebody, when you dig in deep and grab a hold.
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For me reading the book [The Exorcist], I had the same questions that everyone else had. How does she jump up and down off the bed? How does her head spin around? How does she throw up?
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Grand Slam losses are hard. I treat myself after losses though, I usually go to McDonald's and I have a hamburger and you know, something. Because you know, you just need to be nice to yourself sometimes after the loss.
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Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it's a natural fact of life.
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Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.
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The loss of religious faith among the most civilized portion of the race is a step from childishness toward maturity.
