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.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
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  • Character

• 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.

  

  Laura Dern
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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.

  

  Yuna
  • Clothes
  • Season
  • Shop

• 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.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
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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.

  

  Barbara Kruger
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• I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.

  

  Verne Troyer
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  • Think
  • Challenge

• It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

  

  Napoleon Hill
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  • You
  • Life Is A

• 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.

  

  Natalie Massenet
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  • Past

• Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.

  

  Macy Gray
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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.

  

  Nader al-Masri
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• You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.

  

  Vance Packard
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• I don't want to miss out on the chance of having a good time.

  

  Victor Webster
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  • Chance

• Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

  

  Ovid
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  • Pain
  • Strength

• 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.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
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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.

  

  Yaya Toure
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• If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.

  

  Xavier Becerra
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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.

  

  Calvin Johnson
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  • Try

• 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.

  

  Ziggy Marley
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• Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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  • Government

• Traditionally, the sample is always better than the stock you deliver to the store.

  

  Calvin Klein
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• The reason I didn't fly over from Maui at their beck and call is my wife was about to have a baby at any time. Those guys knew that. These guys would not compromise and meet me halfway.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
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• Speaking after receiving a German media prize award in Baden-Baden, Germany on May 25, 2017. Source: Kirschbaum, Erik (25 May 2017). 'In Berlin, Obama speaks out against hiding behind walls'. Reuters via nasdaq.com. Archived from the original on 27 May 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2017.

  

  Barack Obama
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• I think it's a good thing to have a lot of voices in the media, and I think, you know, let all flowers bloom.

  

  Cokie Roberts
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• Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.

  

  B. J. Novak
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