Noel Fielding Quotes

I don't really like jokes in a way. I mean gags are fine but I like weird moments where what you have isn't really a joke, just tiny moments.

Noel Fielding

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• The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

  

  Daley Thompson
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• Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O'Hara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.

  

  Laura Osnes
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• I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
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• When I was in law school, there was a used book store nearby. I picked up a Harlequin romance and read it. It was stress relieving.

  

  Karen Robards
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• When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
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• There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.

  

  Jack Kilby
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• You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
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• Comic books have a long, fraught history with sexism.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• What's interesting about Twitter and the influencers that someone follows - like, say, Shaquille O'Neal - is that they see someone who is using the exact same tools that they have access to, and I think that inspires this hope to be able to really engage with someone like him.

  

  Jack Dorsey
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• Music was my one way to vent.

  

  Becky G
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• You can't write about an iconic Hollywood star of the sixties without bumping up against Elizabeth Taylor.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
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• The scope of linguistics should be:

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure

• Now hollow fires burn out to black,And lights are guttering low:Square your shoulders, lift your pack,And leave your friends and go.Oh never fear, man, nought's to dread,Look not to left nor right:In all the endless road you treadThere's nothing but the night.

  

  A. E. Housman
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• Ninety-nine people out of a hundred have not seriously considered what they mean by the term 'exist' nor how a thing qualifies itself to be labelled real.

  

  Arthur Eddington
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• We would never comment on private correspondence.

  

  Prince Charles

• Imagine what it would be like if you didn't know that the evening news was funded primarily by 'Big Pharma.' You would actually believe the stuff that they're saying. You might even think those are the stories that matter.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
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• The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.

  

  Desiderius Erasmus
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• What worries me are these so-called radio stations with program directors who don't play all the different flavors of hip-hop. They should play the old with the new, 24/7, 365 days a year. A lot of these program directors are just jiving around and not playing all the good music for the people.

  

  Afrika Bambaataa
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• I write emotional music.

  

  Les Baxter
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• I had an amazing childhood and always loved to sing and dance, but there were moments where I had ups and downs with my health that often tested me as it does many people. I've never hidden the fact that my health was sometimes not on my side, but I've never let it define me or deter me from my dreams.

  

  Jessie J
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• Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. … This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.

  

  Ray Charles
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• How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!

  

  Ernest Hemingway
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• There are such wonderful blessings in my life - I have this amazing baby, an amazing family, and I loved X Factor - all these moments of joy, and then these sharp drop-offs. I'd be awake, lying in bed, crying. There's these weird moments of misplaced anger I have.

  

  Ayda Field
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• I don't really like jokes in a way. I mean gags are fine but I like weird moments where what you have isn't really a joke, just tiny moments.

  

  Noel Fielding
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