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 only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.
Lacey Chabert
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
Rachel Dratch
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The migration wave can be stopped.
Viktor Orban
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
Fedor Emelianenko
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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.
Zendaya
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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.
Sam Walton
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I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
Frances McDormand
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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.
Mahershala Ali
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
W. Eugene Smith
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You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.
Fernando Flores
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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.
Padgett Powell
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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.
Xavier Rudd
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Empty values statements create cynical and dispirited employees, alienate customers, and undermine managerial credibility.
Patrick Lencioni
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The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.
B. F. Skinner
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This is one Hart that you will not leave in San Francisco.
Gary Hart
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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.
Barack Obama
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There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified, and new prejudices to be opposed.
Samuel Johnson
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I like most kinds of music. So I haven't got a bag, as they say... except the big black one in the hall outside.
Paul McCartney The Beatles
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An environmentalist can oppose factory farming because it's reckless stewardship. A conservative can oppose factory farming because it is destructive to small farmers and to the decent ethic of husbandry those farmers live by. A religious person can oppose factory farming because it is degrading to both man and animal - an offense to God.
Matthew Scully
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In the province of the mind what one believes to be true, either is true or becomes true within certain limits. These limits are to be found experimentally and experientially. When so found these limits turn out to be further beliefs to be transcended. In the province of the mind there are no limits.
John Lilly
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First of all there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of Emptiness, and that will surround you on all sides. ...Try to submerge yourself in that light, giving up all belief in a separate self, all attachment to your illusory ego.
Gautama Buddha
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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.
Norman Dorsen