Norman Cousins Quotes

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

Norman Cousins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I've been actively trying to extend my reach beyond WWE. I wanted to do some non-action related projects, stuff that will resonate with different audiences who might not know who I am.

John Cena

I AmReachTryingKnowWillBeyond

I don't have any regrets. When I quit college and moved to Los Angeles to become an actress, it was so that I would not look back and have any regrets.

Amy Weber

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I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Stephen Leacock

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You've got to understand when a collaborator isn't satisfied anymore.

Martin Scorsese

YouUnderstandSatisfiedGotAnymore

I have no illusions that my work can rouse the masses to create change, because literature simply doesn't have that power anymore in my country, if it does anywhere. But I do hope that it can be read by those who are in positions to create change, or that it can at least be part of that dialogue.

Miguel Syjuco

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I don't use simple words. I make games and puzzles with my songs.

Lisa Loeb

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I really wanted a wonderful, traditional home for my kid.

Drew Barrymore

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As I stand here today and tell you about these, I am heavy with an awareness of the fact that I am in more than one sense a product of both the Chinese and Western cultures, in harmony and in conflict.

Chen-Ning Yang

TodayI AmConflictStandYouMore

A psychic once read my palm and told me I was my mother's mother in a past life. Isn't that weird?

Chynna Phillips

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Music is this divine thing, the closest that we can get to something divine. It's like this instinct we all own, and some of us have found a way to hear that music and write it down and share it with people.

Aurora

MusicPeopleDownWayWriteOwn

There's a limit to what I can do with a makeup or with animatronics.

Rick Baker

MakeupI CanLimit

To each his own. You like what you like. If you want someone who's big-boned and you like that, ain't nothing wrong with having a little extra meat on there. If you like them thin-boned, then that's okay, too.

Martin Lawrence

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