Norman Myers Quotes
We are into the opening stages of a human-caused biotic holocaust-a wholesale elimination of species-that could leave the planet impoverished for at least five million years.
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No one has ever raised capital because their pitch deck was pretty. A lot of people have raised capital because they were over-prepared, knew where their business was going, and were able to articulate that through a pitch alongside a pitch deck.
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I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.
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We gave the world dab fever!
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I can cure AIDS, and I will.
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I was determined to create my own identity. My first hits, in fact, were straight-up rhythm and blues. My voice was compared to Aretha Franklin's - though, for my money, no one compares to Aretha.
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I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.
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Who wouldn't want to be Frank Sinatra's son?
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A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that.
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The newspaper is in all its literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct.
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I'm so grateful this day has ended well.
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One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
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THE DEAD TRAVEL FAST
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Thank God for both our grandmothers, the Hollands' grandmother was very seminal, and mine was the head of the choir at my church, ... I had to be at church on Thursday, Saturday and Sundays rehearsing. I couldn't do anything else until I got that business taken care of.
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As you go through life, there are thousands of little forks in the road, and there are a few really big forks-those moments of reckoning, moments of truth.
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It's a scene in Boston Harbor. It's in the Yellow Sitting Room on the second floor. And he always teased me about not having my name on it.
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And would it have been worth it, after all, Would it have been worth while, After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets, After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor - And this, and so much more? -
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Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost.
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We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals.
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No matter how individual we humans are, we are a composite of everything we are aware of. We are a mirror of our times.
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We are into the opening stages of a human-caused biotic holocaust-a wholesale elimination of species-that could leave the planet impoverished for at least five million years.
