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Norman Cousins Quotes

The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.

Norman Cousins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Book Worth Say Way Anything Read

I always try to bring a certain masculine presence to what I do. That is part of the dynamic.

Mekhi Phifer

Try Always Presence Bring Dynamic

I've never been derogatory towards taxi drivers.

Travis Kalanick

Never Taxi Been Drivers Derogatory

I know it's working when I'm writing a book if I'm laughing or crying.

Judy Blume

Writing Book Know Working Laughing

Millions of Indonesians who live with secrets in their family who have a sense of that kind of secret that their parents never told them, want to be told about what happened so they can know where they come from.

Joshua Oppenheimer

Family Live Parents Secrets Know

I led the fight for the Clinton health care plan in 1994. We failed. I learned from that experience. What I learned is you can't pass a complicated government-run plan.

Dick Gephardt

Health Experience Fight Care Plan

Space is not a good place to mix foods because as soon as you take something out of the package, it becomes a flying object.

Chris Hadfield

Good Space Flying You Place Out

Certainly, the murder of civilians for political statement did not just begin on September 11, 2001.

Cliff Stearns

Political Begin Statement September

People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin Laden and kill him and his cult. Naturally they consider that a legitimate thing to do, but they're having mixed success at the job.

Bruce Sterling

Success Job People Colleagues Trying

I just love his creativity; that's what I'm talking about as far as being unique and creative and different. Kanye is doing it.

Prodigy

Love Creativity Creative Talking Far

I had a really generic upbringing, I think, when it comes to viewing movies as a kid. I didn't really know what was out there or what was being tried. I was, like, 'E.T.' and 'Indiana Jones.' Those were the only things I knew existed.

Shane Carruth

Think Know Movies Kid Out Things

I think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.

Richard Branson

Family I Am Child Me Ambition Think

I'm so sick of seeing these movies where married couples are just cuddling on the couch and caressing each other's faces.

Leslie Mann

Sick Seeing Movies Couch Couples