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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It's a struggle for anybody to take their paradigms and set of beliefs and understandings and completely flip the script.
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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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In my painting, negative space is never arbitrary. (I believe lithographs to be colored marks printed on a ground – the paper and the measure of the ground and the marks are to be considered of equal importance). In my painting, the painting is the subject rather than the subject the painting.
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I'm not wholesome at all. I detest homey things like cooking and bed-making and Peter Pan collars. I like to wear slacks and play golf.
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In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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I understand and respect deeply that each project brings its own secret and wonderful gifts and happy accidents.
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It's like living at an airshow, unless you have something against airplanes, golf, guns, motorcycles, nice cars or drinking.
