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.

Nicole Holofcener

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• If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
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• 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.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
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• 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.

  

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• When I was in high school, I was lucky enough to be an exchange student to a small town in Argentina called Goya.

  

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• There's very few dork movies made by dorks.

  

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• We want a money that some government mandarin can't just whisk into existence with a pen stroke.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
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• The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

  

  Jackie Robinson
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• 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.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • World
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• I just wanna hear my own voice.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
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  • Just
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• I've always found it embarrassing to receive awards.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Always
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• 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.

  

  Og Mandino
  • May
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• 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?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • King

• 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.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • People
  • Life
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• 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.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Justice

• The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.

  

  Paul Westerberg The Replacements
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  • Truth
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• Bitcoin can be programmed, metered, and exchanged by connected devices, enabling more efficient usage of our planet's resources and services.

  

  Jeremy Allaire

• 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.'

  

  Douglas Brinkley
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• I can't believe it. I'm speechless. It is amazing to see where I've come from the last two years.

  

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• Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not.

  

  Zoe Saldana
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  • Sex

• A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

  

  Florence Nightingale
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• Will doesn't have to be struggle!

  

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  • Struggle

• The Spy Act prohibits keystroke logging, hijacking, and phishing.

  

  Cliff Stearns

• 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.

  

  Nicole Holofcener
  • Struggle
  • Joke
  • Backfire