Nicole Holofcener Quotes
I thought I could make a sarcastic joke about it. But it's based on my own struggle with how much to give, how much it's really helping or not, and how foolish or not I feel. Giving sometimes backfires.
Quotes to Explore
-
If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.
-
I have a charity called the Chain Of Hope, where we target children from poor areas where heart surgery is not available, and we offer our services.
-
We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
-
When I was in high school, I was lucky enough to be an exchange student to a small town in Argentina called Goya.
-
There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
-
We want a money that some government mandarin can't just whisk into existence with a pen stroke.
-
The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
-
More passengers fly in and out of London than any other city in the world. We are well-connected, we have ample capacity, and we are starting from a position of strength. The problem is that we don't use that capacity well.
-
I just wanna hear my own voice.
-
I've always found it embarrassing to receive awards.
-
Happiness, in truth, may not be the fruit plucked by my action yet without action all fruit will die on the vine. I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. I will act now.
-
How did it happen that a republic born of a rebellion against a king and parliament we did not elect has fallen under a tyranny of judges we did not elect?
-
People know me for my love of food, but I have so much more I want to share. Our show's going to be all about taking a bigger bite out of life. I want people to see themselves in this show because life is full of messes and successes, and getting there is half the fun.
-
Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence. We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
-
The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.
-
Bitcoin can be programmed, metered, and exchanged by connected devices, enabling more efficient usage of our planet's resources and services.
-
Having recorded his first album, 'Tapestry,' in 1969, in Berkeley, California, during the student riots, McLean, a native New Yorker, became a kind of weather vane for what he called the 'generation lost in space.'
-
I can't believe it. I'm speechless. It is amazing to see where I've come from the last two years.
-
Every morning when I wake up, I listen to 'The Brian Lehrer Show' on WNYC.
-
Apollo 11 was the movie premiere of moon landings, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Neil was a bit of a mystic, but also a taciturn guy from what I can tell. He really saw the moon as looking like the American high desert. He wasn't someone who dealt in metaphors.
-
A relationship cannot survive the test of time without trust.
-
I would love to work into my eighties. I don't want to be someone who only does a couple of big films and then is famous for just 15 minutes.
-
Study the past if you would define the future.
-
I thought I could make a sarcastic joke about it. But it's based on my own struggle with how much to give, how much it's really helping or not, and how foolish or not I feel. Giving sometimes backfires.
