George W. Norris Quotes
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I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
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I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
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We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
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I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.
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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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To do more of a concert thing, it takes so much preparation. You don't just show up and wing it. You're putting countless hours in the studio, not just to write and produce stuff, but to come up with edits and special things for the show.
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I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.
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I like Sam Smith and Taylor Swift. I love pop music, but I also like Sam Smith's slow songs. That would be more to dance to. I think dancers like different genres of music, compared to just a regular person.
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A great amount of good is always evened out by a great amount of bad. I find it's best to acknowledge that weird balance.
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I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.
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I can do lovers. I can do Sir Galahad types. I'm not going to limit myself in voice-overs to irascible old men.
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I'm from Pennsylvania, so I was in New York a lot and my brother lives in New York.
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When you're working in public radio, you don't have any money to advertise.
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Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown.
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The Palestinian Authority has become the biggest terror body in the world.
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You can't believe the government - on anything. And you especially can't believe them when they're talking about important stuff.
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What I've always been most interested in is exposing the way stories and fantasies reconstitute our everyday reality. What appears to be non-fiction is not only totally mysterious, unfathomable, and strange when you really look at what it is.
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
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Why does no one speak of the cultural advantages of the country? For example, is a well groomed, ecologically kept, sustainably fertile farm any less cultural, any less artful, than paintings of fat angels on church ceilings?
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God is the place of spirits, as spaces are the places of bodies.
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And when it is done, we ought to follow the example by disarming ourselves.
