Noah Wyle Quotes
After having played serious drama for so long, I needed to scratch the itch of versatility.
Quotes to Explore
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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I'm afraid to fail again.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.
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The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you – and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.
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And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
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Every vote should carry a serial number, so that responsibility for harmful or careless use of the vote can be traced. Concealed voting should be outlawed.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not.
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There are Tea Parties, and I would say plural, in California.
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Well, I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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Being talked about like a package - I feel like that all the time.
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Once you accept that we're all imperfect, it's the most liberating thing in the world. Then you can go around making mistakes and saying the wrong thing and tripping over on the street and all that and not feel worried.
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All I can say is that I had an extraordinary childhood.
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When I'm on stage, I feel alive. It's the most rewarding feeling an actor can live.
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Generally for red carpet, I love to relax first. I love to work out. I love to eat well, drink tons of water beforehand, so on the night of the red carpet I feel good and ready to go. I also love to get a good body scrub.
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Just several years ago, Shaykh Kabbani, who is the head of the Islamic Supreme Council of America, when he was speaking at the State Department, said that more than 80 percent of the mosques were controlled by extremists. And from all I've seen over the last four or five years, the situation has even gotten worse.
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America gives every appearance of being a nation besotted with trashiness - divorce, illegitimacy, casual Fridays.
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If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.
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In theater, you really work out the kinks and figure out exactly what you want to do and what we want to say, so by the time we have an audience, we're really prepared. With TV, you have a day... Sometimes, just a few hours.
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Unfortunately, every time I have somebody play an instrument, it's always like, they don't know how to do it.
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After having played serious drama for so long, I needed to scratch the itch of versatility.
