George W. Norris Quotes
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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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We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children.
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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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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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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
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The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
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The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.
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God, it was hot! Forget about frying an egg on the sidewalk; this kind of heat would fry an egg inside the chicken.
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After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. In other words, you can't go backwards and regain your ignorance, you have to move forward.
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Girls together getting dressed up can be really good fun.
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Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.
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Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.
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And when it is done, we ought to follow the example by disarming ourselves.
