Chris Norman Quotes
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For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are.
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Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of my teachers discovered I had a learning disability called dyslexia. Once I got help, I read very well!
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Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there's going to be blowback.
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To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
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Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
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Considering retirement is like skirting with the reality of what's to come, and I think that's why so many athletes decide to do more introspection at that point.
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We saw - we conducted the experiment. I mean, it's been done. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. We saw Apple without Steve Jobs. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. Now, we're gonna see Apple without Steve Jobs.
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Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.
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A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
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Despite all the media coverage, glitz and glam of hedge funds, they have not done well for their investors. They have high - some say excessively high - fees; their short- and long-term performance has been poor.
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I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'
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Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.
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The team spirit was amazing. The key was our second-half performance. We didn't play as much rugby as we would have liked and we didn't play too smartly in the last five minutes.
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My dad taught me how to play. He was a great amateur player in Curacao.
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Just as it is wrong to work on chess by studying only the first 10-15 moves, so it is wrong to play one and the same opening system, even though it be rich in variations and nuances.
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We've just got to go up there and play well, no matter who we've got.
