Joakim Noah Quotes
Being from New York, everybody's a point guard. Even when you play in the park, you've got to know how to handle the ball. If you can't handle the ball, you can't really play.
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I try to work on a film that my audiences would appreciate and enjoy their time in a theatre.
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Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.
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When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
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You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
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I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum.
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I feel like fashion and music relate to each other in a lot of ways. I always had to be creative: I'm a very creative person. I always liked making stuff. Apart from music, I always liked making clothes. You're able to express yourself.
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Everyone in this house and the houses next door knows when I'm in the sauna because I start singing, and I sing the blues when I'm in a really good mood. I have a really loud voice, you know.
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It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-biased media and the homosexuals who want to destroy all Christians.
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I prefer to find craftspeople I can be colleagues with and who take an area of responsibility and run with it.
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You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.
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It is African scholars themselves who will create the ultimate Encyclopaedia Africana.
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They'll probably start working on my movie sometime... They are doing a complete movie of my life story. It will not be based on any negativity. It will be more about my life, from a kid, how I came up and why I came through.
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I started doing improv my sophomore year.
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I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.
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All of my judges will want to welcome every child into the world, give them a place at the table.
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Why don't you come up sometime and see me? … Come on up, I'll tell your fortune.
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She was his life,The ocean to the river of his thoughts, Which terminated all.
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I love my wife. She had money when I didn't.
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It's all about theme and development anyway. That's what music is about.
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What I've taken from my spiritual study is the wisdom of living a balanced life. My spiritual path has also helped me to be more emotionally centered, to be more understanding of those that disagree with me, and to learn how to let go of some of my power issues so that I can be more effective and bring a sense of humility to my work - while still having the self-confidence to be effective.
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God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
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One of these days the dam of Gods mercy will give way to his justice.
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Being from New York, everybody's a point guard. Even when you play in the park, you've got to know how to handle the ball. If you can't handle the ball, you can't really play.
