Norman Corwin Quotes

The ability of Americans to toss off oppressive characters is the most rewarding aspect, to me, of U.S. history.

Norman Corwin

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• Try letting a Kindle protect your heart from sniper fire!

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Heart
  • Fire
  • Try

• I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but I think I am getting wiser in how to use my physical skills. That's the frustrating part when you put so much heart and desire into things and feel like you are not wanted.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Heart
  • Business
  • Nature

• People are wired for lots of things. We're wired for novelty. We're wired for humor. We're wired for new pieces of information that surprise us in some way or add value to our lives. We're wired for fear.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • Fear
  • Value

• The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.

  

  Adam Dell
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • World
  • Power
  • Powerful

• I love ice cream, and I love chocolate.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Chocolate
  • Ice
  • Ice Cream

• I don't go out of the way to take special care of myself.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Way
  • Myself
  • Care

• I was rather foolish in saying that I did not like arithmetic and to learn figures when I did - I was not thinking quite what I was about. The sums can be done better, if I tried, than they are.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Learn

• It made the most sense for us to select Sam Bowie. It was almost a no-brainer.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Made
  • U.S.
  • Almost

• I learned the first night that IHOP's not the place to order fish.

  

  Larry David
  • Night
  • Place
  • Fish

• Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Women
  • Poetry
  • For Her

• I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Help

• 'The Burning Dark' needs a certain kind of soundtrack - something dark and moody, electronic, weird. One of my favourite bands is Ladytron, and I think they'd fit the bill quite well.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • Think
  • Dark
  • Weird

• I'm reading scripts just like everybody else. Tin cup in hand, knocking on doors, trying to get a job. It's tough. They don't make as many films these days, and there's a lot of guys that are fighting for jobs.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Trying
  • Job
  • Reading

• I had a dream of music and art and the big city in which I would get lost, where no one would know me and I wouldn't know anyone, where I would work at some ordinary job, and if one day I got up in the morning and decided I wasn't going to go to work anymore, no one would ask questions.

  

  Ori Gersht
  • Up
  • Work
  • Music

• Fashion will take on added stature one day, but try not to be stifled by it. You will learn, as you mature, to swap heels for Stan Smith trainers, minidresses for crisp white shirts. And you will never be one of those people who just roll out of bed.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Day
  • Fashion

• In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Long
  • Way
  • Childhood

• When I tell children that they are far too dependent on their gizmos, they do not deny it. But they really don't care. This is their real life - texting about trivial things; listening to numbing music on their private headphones. The machines block everything out - you create your own little trivial world.

  

  Bill O'Reilly
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• If I'm ever feeling uninspired, all I have to do is go see Exodus or Arch Enemy, and think 'Oh yeah, that's what we're doing this for.'

  

  Kerry King Slayer
  • Feeling
  • Enemy

• I've seen small businesses turn into terrible midsize or big ones because they let their desire to achieve some arbitrary metric get the best of them. Whatever is compromised as a result doesn't matter anymore, as long as the company is growing.

  

  Jason Fried
  • Long
  • Small
  • Growing

• 'Love Don't Let Me Down,' which is the original title of 'Country Strong,' was just as difficult emotionally as 'Tron' was physically. I play a country singer that basically gets on tour with Gwyneth Paltrow's character, who is one of the biggest country stars out there, and she's fallen down too many times and it's an intense emotional story.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Country
  • Love
  • Character

• With musical theatre, although there are rules, they're so different to the ones I feel like I have accidentally been ingrained with writing pop music. The main point is to tell the story. You just have to make sure the character's voice is strong and the storytelling is strong.

  

  Sara Bareilles
  • Music
  • Different
  • Writing

• The ability of Americans to toss off oppressive characters is the most rewarding aspect, to me, of U.S. history.

  

  Norman Corwin
  • Character
  • Ability
  • Aspect