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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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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.
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I just wanna hear my own voice.
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I've always found it embarrassing to receive awards.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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...any move made in a state of tension will be of more important, and will have more results, than it would have made in a state of eqilibrium. In times of maximum tension this importance will rise to an infinite degree.
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The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.
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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.
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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.'
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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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Thought that is no longer limited, brings experience that is no longer limited.
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Believe it or not, I write on stage. I can't write anywhere else; I have to be in a moment. I also have to challenge myself to make something funny out of a premise. I never have my own jokes written. I have to change things as I go along, and I have to entertain myself.
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Begin today. Declare out loud to the universe that you are willing to let go of struggle and eager to learn through joy.
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Acting to me is real life - I don't act.
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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.
