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Norman Cousins Quotes

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: June 24, 1915 - November 30, 1990

Topics

Dreams People Become More Never

I just want to get to the level where I can say that that's my level, just try to play well, get up there.

Jennifer Capriati

I Can Play Say Want Try Up

As president, I want to be a citizen who can communicate with all Argentines.

Citizen Want President Communicate

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Ignorance Miracles Soil Belief Grows

I knew that I have the game to beat the best players.

Angelique Kerber

Best Game Beat Players Knew

Justin Theroux is the ideal team partner to have. He's a writer. He's a director.

Team Partner Director Writer He

Like all paradises, Topanga is pitched at the tipping point of promise and peril.

Point Promise Like Peril Tipping

At Knopf, everything is inherited.

Everything Inherited

When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played a symphony that wasn't permitted, and the Germans came up on stage and broke every finger on her hands. I grew up with stories of Nazis breaking the fingers of Jews.

Steven Spielberg

Friend Mother Me Remember Hands Up

We can control our borders, we just choose not too.

Control Choose Borders Just Our Too

Unlike the Vietnam boat people or Cuban refugees after Castro came to power, the U.S. has no moral responsibility for the chaos in Syria. In fact, just the opposite is the case.

Power Responsibility People Chaos

When my wife and I met, I couldn't talk to her - and my defense mechanism is sarcasm. I belittle someone with verbal pokes and prods. I did it to her out of complete awe. When friends introduced us, I said 'Hi' - and turned my back. Later, I called my mom and best friend and said, 'I think I just met my wife.'

Friend Best Wife Mom Best Friend

Michael Jordan and Michael Phelps are the greatest to ever do what they did, and I'm not. But if you believe that you are, then you're almost as good as being that.

Good Believe You Greatest Being Did

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