Noah Porter (Noah Thomas Porter III) Quotes
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.
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My message to the ladies would be, you can do all of the things, but not all of them at the same time.
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We can ask ourselves why we invent God, and then, ten minutes later, we invent Satan - why? Because we need him; there's something fascinating about the other side of the coin.
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Practice the brotherhood, love, and cooperation insistently enjoined by hundreds of Qur'anic verses and traditions of the Prophet!
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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What seems like a crazy idea today eventually grows. It's a 'with hindsight' thing. One day, someone will turn around and say, 'That was genius.'
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I like to get a salad or fruit in me - just some good energy food - and then a plate a pasta with a breast of chicken.
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What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.
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If I don't go to the gym for a week, I just get thinner and thinner.
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The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are no independent doctors' offices or neighborhood clinics, so people have to go to the hospital for every health care need.
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I would say that I definitely play a different role with my style; I like to mix it up a bit according to wherever I am. I dress differently in New York, L.A., Paris and London.
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We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.
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I don't want to live my life to entertain other people. I have other things that I'd like to do.
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Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you.
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You don't put out music unless you have a sense that people will maybe like what you're doing or you're standing for something artistically.
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No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.
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Good doctors get a mechanic's pleasure in making you tick over.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants. I'll have a desk like this in my parlor and white walls and a clean green blotter every Saturday night and a row of shining yellow pencils always sharpened for writing and a golden-brown bowl with a flower or some leaves or berries always in it and books . . . books . . . books. . . .
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No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
