Nicholas Kroll (Nick Kroll) Quotes
Comedy is so collaborative. You're going to come up with better jokes with people you like joking around with. It just makes sense.
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Experts are able to identify patterns related to a specific problem relevant to their area of knowledge. But because nonexperts lack that base of knowledge, they are forced to rely more on their brain's ability for abstraction rather than specificity.
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The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
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It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular dogma.
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Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
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'Power' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly wish they could do or know they could get away with.
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I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.
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I do myself up kind of like a doll. I have a doll collection and I look at their outfits and kind of imitate them.
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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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As an athlete, you only have so much time. The window only has so much time and then it closes. You have to take care of yourself the best you can.
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My big downfall is deep-dish pizza from Chicago. That is why I can't go vegan - I can't give up cheese. I can't give up dairy.
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I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.
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I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.
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'Rookie' is not your guide to Being a Teen. It is, quite simply, a bunch of writing and art we like and believe in.
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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
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A Deap Vally renaissance is going to begin next year and will be our focus for the start of 2013. They will blow the cobwebs off a music scene that has become just a little bit stale.
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General Motors spends more on health care than steel.
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With age comes a greater wisdom, an ease and comfort with oneself.
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The poorest residents of the gulf coast were most affected by the devastating hurricanes, and the poorest Americans have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden in Iraq.
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I'm a songwriter and I'd love to make that a part of my career.
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For a decade, I was a stay-at-home mom. I sent my husband to his law office, sat on PTA boards and baked cookies - great cookies. All of a sudden, I had no husband, no job, few prospects, and two small children who had grown accustomed to eating.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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I'm part Spanish. My paternal grandfather came from Spain via Singapore to Manila. On my mother's side it's more mixture, with a Filipino mother and a father who was Scotch Irish-French; you know, white American hybrid. And I also have on my father's side a great-great-grandmother who was Chinese. So, I'm a hybrid.
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I'm used to being cut out of the conference meetings, but now they are cutting us out even before the bill's are written or either the House or Senate Acts.
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Comedy is so collaborative. You're going to come up with better jokes with people you like joking around with. It just makes sense.
