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.

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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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• 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 was in a sketch group in L.A., and we were playing, like, backyards in Glendale and stuff. It was pretty ugly because we didn't have any money.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Money
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• I'm from Santa Cruz in Northern California, and the 49ers were my dad and I's bonding time.

  

  Marisa Miller
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• I had no business trying to see you leave, see death arrive, I owe you an apology, an elegy, I owe you the drift of memory, the praise of everything, of saying it was the best decision of my life, to hold you full, hold you empty, & live as the only bond between the two.

  

  Bob Hicok
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• Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all - the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

  

  Mark Twain
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• One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.

  

  Paul Cezanne
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• When you're playing a character, you don't really want to have an opinion about where you're going to end up. Otherwise, you can't really stay in the moment and in your character.

  

  Jonny Lee Miller
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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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