B. J. Novak Quotes
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
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I don't know about you, but I think blankets are the best, especially your own personal blanket.
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I like to do things quickly because I'm easily bored.
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The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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I was lucky enough to have parents with a huge film library. My mum is a huge Bollywood film geek. When we were kids, we would watch Indian films with her as well as Chinese and Japanese films. My father was more into the classics, American films, and also Hitchcock films.
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The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career.
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
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I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.
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We deploy a full arsenal of tools against voter fraud, including long prison terms, heavy fines and deportation. We have checks and balances at all levels of the system. And we have the Department of Justice prosecutors backing us up.
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At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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It's not easy to shout against real elements. The elements are big, and the human voice is very small.
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Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.
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I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit.
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The reform of government needs to continue.
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There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?
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Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.
