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
  • Different
  • Think
  • Chance

• 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
  • Children
  • Heart
  • Hope

• 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.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Beautiful
  • Day
  • Band

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

  

  Patrick Wang
  • School
  • High
  • Small

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

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Movies
  • Made
  • Very

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

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Money
  • Want
  • Government

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

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Personal
  • Dignity
  • Treasure

• 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
  • City
  • Fly

• I just wanna hear my own voice.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Voice
  • Just
  • My Own

• I've always found it embarrassing to receive awards.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Always
  • Found
  • 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.

  

  Og Mandino
  • May
  • Truth
  • Action

• 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
  • Fun

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

  

  Paul Westerberg The Replacements
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Song

• 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
  • Lost
  • Space
  • California

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

  

  Libby Trickett
  • Believe
  • Amazing

• My kids are fans of 'Riverdale.'

  

  Mark Consuelos
  • Kids

• I can't control the criticism. It's something you certainly don't appreciate, but by the same token, everybody is entitled to their opinion.

  

  Don Shula
  • Control
  • Opinion
  • Criticism

• If you can't love who you are now, you can't get to the place you want to be.

  

  Chrissy Metz

• The harsh reality is that we simply cannot tax our way out of our overspending and debt problem. We need a balanced approach that includes both a stronger economy to generate new tax revenues and bipartisan guardrails, which will help ensure that future presidents and congresses spend within our means.

  

  Kevin Brady
  • Help
  • Future
  • Reality

• I think people with open minds will observe the way we do things and realize that our goal is to have successful, happy, productive adults, and they will take our ideas and implement them elsewhere for their own children.

  

  Daniel Greenberg
  • People
  • Children
  • Happy

• When we succeed in truly thanking God, we feel good at heart. The reason is that we have been created to give glory to God, now and for-evermore. And every time we do so, we feel that we are in harmony with His plans and purposes for our lives. Then we are truly in our element. That is why it is so blessed.

  

  Ole Hallesby
  • Time
  • Good
  • God

• 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