Joakim Noah Quotes
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As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.
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Of course, my interests and my focus change and become more diverse, more worldly. At the same time, I am interested in the simple basics, which is I love to dance and I love to make people dance.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.
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People walk differently in high heels. Your body sways to a different kind of tempo.
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I would like 'I Dream of Genie' powers.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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I've turned into one of those people who go jogging in parks that I used to hate.
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I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.
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No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.
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The Russians are very much more up and down than the French.
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Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history.
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Elegance is very dangerous. It's like TNT. A little goes a long way.
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By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.
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Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.
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Sometimes we make films just for our people, and it doesn't reach to anyone.
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There's been no real reason to move to LA. The stuff I've done for America has been done in Europe anyway. We made a decision early on that we'd find our base and not shake the children's world as much as mine.
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
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What worries me is the professionalism of everything.
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[Kurt] Vonnegut was a writer whose great gift was that he always seemed to be talking directly to you. He wasn't writing, he wasn't showing off, he was just telling you, nobody else, what it was like, what it was all about. That intimacy made him beloved. We can admire the art of John Updike or Philip Roth, but we love Vonnegut.
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Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one's book isn't especially compelling - unless you're David Sedaris.
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Thank God I'm with the love of my life. That's why I know I'm right where I'm supposed to be.
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Roosevelt was determined to stop Stalin from taking over Eastern Europe. He thought they finally had an agreement on Poland. Before Roosevelt died, he realized that Stalin had broken his agreement.
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Uh? They don't like me over here, either.
