B. J. Novak Quotes
Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.
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Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
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That policy was abandoned very quickly, and the military police were tagged with the responsibility of conducting training, which they did. We were not equipped or set up with personnel to recruit new Iraqi guards.
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As the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you.
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Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
