Norman MacEwen Quotes

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Norman MacEwen

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• I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Feet

• The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Men
  • Dream

• One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.

  

  Yael Stone
  • World
  • American
  • Culture

• The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and the character is interesting, then, as an actor, that's the raw material I need.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Work
  • Great
  • Writing

• I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Hate
  • Taken
  • Changes

• It is better to be likable than to be talented.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Better
  • Talented
  • Likable

• There's parts of it that I connect to - being a father and everything - but 'Mamma Mia!' allows me to go out there and be me and have fun. I've never really had the chance to do that with so much freedom.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Fun
  • Father
  • Freedom

• I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Time
  • Know
  • Me

• I like movies that leave you with something to think about, to discuss, to debate, you know?

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Know
  • Movies
  • Debate

• People would say, 'Can I hug you?' And I would say, 'Yes, you can hug me! We're fellow New Yorkers!'

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Me
  • Hug

• The real Edie is where the action is. Fast cars, fast horses, and people doing things!

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • People
  • Real
  • Action

• You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest, Where man can boast that he has trod On him that was 'the scourge of God.'

  

  Edward Everett
  • God
  • Power
  • Rest

• Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

  

  Leonard Baskin
  • Art

• Real fulfillment, for the man who allows absolutely free rein to his desires, and who much dominate everything, lies in hatred.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Real
  • Free
  • Lies

• I mean, there's no arguing. There is no anything. There is no beating around the bush. 'You're fired' is a very strong term.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Strong

• We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and the PowerPoint presentation.

  

  James Gleick
  • Devil

• I have a European frame of mind and Europe is my home.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Mind
  • Home

• My heart started running away, like a pack of horses. Then it slowed down and became irregular.

  

  Kevin Nealon
  • Heart
  • Running

• I think anyone in life, everyone in the world, no matter what work they do, they should think of wanting to get on, to win, improve.

  

  Diego Costa
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• I wish my mother could have seen the America we’re going to build together. An America, where if you do your part, you reap the rewards. Where we don’t leave anyone out, or anyone behind. An America where a father can tell his daughter: yes, you can be anything you want to be. Even President of the United States.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • America
  • Together
  • Mother

• Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I pick up a novel.

  

  David Macaulay
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• Werewolves and Arabians. It's like chocolate and peanut butter - a delicious combination.

  

  Anne Bishop
  • Chocolate

• Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

  

  Norman MacEwen
  • Life
  • Give
  • Get