Joakim Noah Quotes
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New York is my home.
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'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.
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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 remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'
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To be here today is just beyond my wildest dreams.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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It is easy to lay the blame on successive governments for failing to address health as a fundamental right for the Indian people. But the real tragedy is that we, the people of India, have not taken our government to task for this catastrophic failure.
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Uh? They don't like me over here, either.
