B. J. Novak Quotes
Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
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Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.
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The bad news is, I have worked less than I have liked. The good news is, I can look back on my body of work and feel truly proud of the work I have done.
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For Eid - or Raya, as the Malaysians call it - we love to shop for new clothes for the festive season. There will be open houses to go to, and Malaysians love to look good for these.
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It's important to understand that oil and renewables do different things. Wind and solar are for power generation, so they don't replace oil. About 70% of all oil produced is used for transportation fuel. Renewables are good projects, but they don't get us off of foreign oil.
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it's all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.
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Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.
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I practice on the roads of Gaza as we don't have good stadiums and tracks so I gave my best.
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You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.
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I don't want to miss out on the chance of having a good time.
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Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
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Crossword puzzles, Sudoku... I'm good at all those things. It's not daily, but I'll do stuff on the airplane. I love playing chess. It's my favorite game.
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When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.
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If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
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Guys try to take you out of the game if they know they can. So especially if you've got a playmaker, guys on the defense would do that.
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Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.
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But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power...It must follow knowledge, and serve need.
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I just write mechanical things.
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I am open to any good script and the character I can do justice to.
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The hardest thing about writing my second album is that I had 20 years to write my first album.
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The subjectivization of the universal in art brings the universal downward on one hand, while on the other it helps raise the individual toward the universal.
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Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
