Noah Cicero Quotes

People always thought if no one believed in God and we were nihilists then people would go around murdering each other. That didn't happen at all, we just bought a lot of things with credit.

Noah Cicero

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• Believed
• Murdering

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• In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.

  

  Pat Summerall
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• I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.

  

  Fay Vincent
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  • Hard
  • I Believe

• The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
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• When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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• I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Life
  • Want
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• I have a very balanced posture about the political situation in my country.

  

  Gabriela Isler
  • Country
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• I'm not really part of any group or clique or gang because that's always been my nature.

  

  Jack Dee
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  • Always
  • Group

• One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
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• The earth has grown a nervous system, and it's us.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Earth

• It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish … to do otherwise is to legitimize it.

  

  Salman Rushdie

• So many of the optimists in the world don't own a hundred dollars, and because of their optimism, never will.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • World

• 'You're still the same girl. What people do doesn't change their nature.'She shook her head.… 'What they do is their nature,' she said.

  

  Kingsley Amis
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  • She
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• I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • Important
  • Knowledge

• Il y a plus d'une sagesse, et toutes sont nécessaires au monde; il n'est pas mauvais qu'elles alternent.

  

  Marguerite Yourcenar

• If I think about what life is, I believe life is a miracle. And if I think about what a miracle is, I don’t believe in it.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Miracle

• I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I wrote really well with, particularly Gary Nicholson and Delbert McClinton, and I really enjoyed the experience, I came away from it feeling like I need to write by myself.

  

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• Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Writing

• Every movie changes you. The process of making a film changes you.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • Movie

• I had this thing about not giving too much of myself away, so I thought, if I sang lyrics, that's giving too much away. You know, I really didn't want to give myself away.

  

  Alison Goldfrapp
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• A lot of the world turns into checklists for me when I'm on the road. Like, OK, this person's alive, this person's fed, this person's good. Soundcheck is done. Everything becomes a checklist except for the actual show.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • World
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• Sometimes I even say that I have surpassed Lasker in using psychology. How? Well, sometimes I use psychology with a portion of risk. That is something else, something that Lasker wouldn't allow.

  

  Viktor Korchnoi
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  • Risk
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• God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know - it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years and everyone must and can leave their contribution.

  

  August Strindberg
  • People
  • God
  • Trying

• People always thought if no one believed in God and we were nihilists then people would go around murdering each other. That didn't happen at all, we just bought a lot of things with credit.

  

  Noah Cicero
  • God
  • Believed
  • Murdering