Norman Dorsen Quotes
We in the United States are pluralistic respecting ultimate beliefs. Profound values exist apart from a devotion to a god. Indeed, those who discriminate against nonbelievers flout the principle of religious tolerance that they often profess.
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The migration wave can be stopped.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult.
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It's funny how you can be thought of as somebody who humanizes bad guys, and I'll take that, but it is something that gave me pause, and I started speaking to my team about finding a good guy.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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I don't write with a scheme or a plan. I write word to word, so whatever that first sentence is, having said that, one more or less had to say what comes next and next and next. Guilty of no cogitation or forethought.
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My first instrument was my voice. I was always singing and writing melodies when I was a little kid. I just sort of taught myself whatever was around. If there were instruments around, I'd play them. I always liked the idea of not being shown but coming up with my own energetic connection to the instrument.
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Empty values statements create cynical and dispirited employees, alienate customers, and undermine managerial credibility.
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The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.
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This is one Hart that you will not leave in San Francisco.
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And I've always believed in what Martin Luther King, Jr. called 'the fierce urgency of now' - we should not fear change, we should embrace it.
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There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified, and new prejudices to be opposed.
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… the ego's need to be periodically in conflict with something or someone in order to strengthen its sense of separation between me and the other, without which it cannot survive.
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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
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Not too many people can afford for the wife to stay home and raise the kids.
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The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.
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I'd rather look like a hobo and be super comfortable than wear something not comfortable.
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I was glad to be sober, but after ninety days, people weren't patting me on the back anymore, sayin', 'Good job on the sobriety! Go get 'em!'
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I used to play drums when I was a kid, play the trombone.
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I loved playing Anne Bancroft, because she was so wonderfully arch.
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Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and see things in sunlit clarity as they actually are.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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Truth reforms as well as informs.
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We in the United States are pluralistic respecting ultimate beliefs. Profound values exist apart from a devotion to a god. Indeed, those who discriminate against nonbelievers flout the principle of religious tolerance that they often profess.
