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Norah Jones Quotes

You know, when you have a father who's pretty well known but you don't see him, the last thing you want to do is start talking about him all the time to people.

Norah Jones

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: March 30, 1979

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Father Time People Start Talking

I think people have been really receptive to understanding that I've grown up and the music's going to sound a little different.

Joe Jonas

Music People Think Understanding Up

It seems disrespectful to my parents who left... to hear their story over and over again which always ends with... 'and I'll never go back as long as anyone in the Castro family is in power.' Well, what happens if you can go back? Would you want to see things?

Jennine Capó Crucet

Family Power Parents Story Long You

Everything you do on Facebook will affect what comes in your view in the future. If you like crappy things that you don't care about, you'll see more crappy brands that you don't care about in the future, and it might even affect your experiences when you walk into bars, churches, schools, shopping malls, etc.

Robert Scoble

Future Walk Shopping Care View You

To my mind, forgetting is a risky strategy for living. Memory is essential to us. It is DNA. We need to remember, and we need to imagine. That's why we have books, writing, fiction.

Romesh Gunesekera

Memory Mind Writing Strategy Living

We humans are still a very primitive culture, and it's one of the traps we've fallen into over the course of our lives - to forget our history. That's why George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' is so profound. It chronicles our short memory.

RuPaul

History Culture Animal Memory Short

A writer is defined by the language in which he writes, and I would stick to that definition.

Joseph Brodsky

Language Stick Would Writer He

In general, it should be in our interest to get organizations out of military activity and into politics.

Jonas Gahr Store

Politics Military Out Interest Get

I like the streets. I grew up in the streets.

William Klein

Up Streets Like Grew

There's always a hunger, when you're young, to go from peak to peak and avoid the valleys.

Peter O'Toole

You Go Young Always Hunger Valleys

My weapon of choice is the nunchuck. I do like the bo as well, which I use, the staff. I'm not so good with the sword, but I picked a lot of stuff up on 'Ninja 1' with the sword.

Scott Adkins

Good Choice Sword Up Well Stuff

In live action, sometimes a mood or a feeling can go on for quite a while. Animation is a lot more effort. There are a lot more notes.

Thomas Newman

Live Effort Action Feeling Sometimes

Direct mail was the basis of a lot of new Right organizations in the '70s and early '80s, and it actually led to the downfall of the majority of them. It's very expensive, and you end up putting your organization more and more in debt if you're not successful with it.

Nina Easton

Organization End You Early New Debt