Jonathan Nolan Quotes
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A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that.
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I have decided in 2020 to run for president.
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I'd been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn't really. You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies.
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There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.
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I was born free.
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Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That's what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on circulation. And how do you increase circulation?
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Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any.
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I think the real needs in the country are for cultural renewal.
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Many ingredients are called 'earthy,' but none comes as close to fitting the bill as buckwheat. I'm mildly obsessed with the stuff.
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Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
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It must be so hard trying to figure yourself out in this industry. Justin Bieber has hit rock-bottom with everyone watching him; that is just so tough.
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We burden ourselves with useless ideas which we carelessly take as facts. Instead of letting reality come as a new surprise, we insist that it conform to our habitual concepts, and thus, we spoil everything.
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A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.
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Politics is a game of compromise.
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It's the nicest birthday I've ever had. You've made a happy man very old.
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For the purposes of poetry a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
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It's unrealistic not to be able to indulge.
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There's something about the rhythm of walking, how, after about an hour and a half, the mind and body can't help getting in sync.
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I have pledged my word to help people on to truth while living and - will keep my word. Let them abuse and revile me. Let some call me a medium, and a Spiritualist, and others an imposter. The day will come when posterity will learn to know me better.
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Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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My favourite place to eat is my grandma's kitchen. She makes a mean crab cake.
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The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations it suggests are more interesting in their nature.
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Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human thought - even more than this, the instinct is as old as life upon the earth.
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None of us like violence in the real world, but we're fascinated with it on screen.
