Brian R. Norris Quotes
It's like living at an airshow, unless you have something against airplanes, golf, guns, motorcycles, nice cars or drinking.
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A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
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The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.
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Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.
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Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.
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I hope some compromise will be entered into between the two parties, slavery & antislavery, which will have the effect of allaying violent passions on both sides.
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Sports saved my life.
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Colour can raise the dead.
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The light of conscience ... enters the eyes of the soul, as the light of the sun enters the eyes of the body; and to open the former requires no greater effort than to open the latter.
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Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely honest. You can tell this, because it comes right out and says, 'I'm a Liar,' right there on the dust jacket.
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I think daily deals are a good idea. Any ad people view as content is a good ad, and that's true for daily-deal ads too.
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Forty Wall Street is probably the most beautiful tower in New York.
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I often say to my friends that I felt too Puerto Rican to live in the States; then I felt too American to live in Puerto Rico. So when I settled back in Puerto Rico in 1992, I had to come to terms with all of that.
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I think the death knell for any musician is getting a job that you like and pays enough that you just stay there forever.
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I don't like selling myself. It's a sort of shy arrogance.
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My mother told me to raise my kids with calculated neglect. They get their self-worth from doing what they can do and not having everything done for them.
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I have loved corsets since I was small. When I was a child, my grandmother took me to an exhibition, and they had a corset on display. I loved the flesh color, the salmon satin, the lace.
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I'm not going to sit here and go to college for something that I don't care about.
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I'm perplexed, though, by your application of the term 'negative' to my figural imagery.
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I think, basically, the music industry is scattered and in a mess. I think you've got lots of people that are so-called 'experts' that have no idea where it's headed.
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I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing.
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The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
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I believe we are going to move into a situation where the more effective conferences will be smaller, more specialized, more focused, with occasional large gatherings to get the attention of the larger world.
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With a larger wheel, you have more contact with the ground, so you have better traction whether you're braking or cornering or any of that stuff. Also, with bigger wheels, once you get them up to speed, they roll faster.
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It's like living at an airshow, unless you have something against airplanes, golf, guns, motorcycles, nice cars or drinking.
