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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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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Anger tears me up inside... My own... or anyone else's.
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I wanted to make my stories, which are inspired by Asian stories, into something fresh, decontextualized - to give them new life as a new kind of fantasy that isn't so cloying and exotic and strange.
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Pension reform can be hard to talk about. In the long run, reform now means fewer demands for layoffs and less draconian measures in the future. It's in the best interest of all Californians to fix this system now.
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As I was writing 'The Shock Doctrine', I was covering the Iraq War and profiteering from the war, and I started to see these patterns repeat in the aftermath of natural disasters, like the Asian tsunami and then Hurricane Katrina.
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If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long.
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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I miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies, so we'd have Godzilla movie marathons. Those are some of my favorite memories, laughing at how the monster outfits were so bad, like black garbage bags for heads.
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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.
