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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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.
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I like to do things quickly because I'm easily bored.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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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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Whenever I'm out and I hear something, I'm writing. It's the process of writing it down and then just always creating wherever you go. I never stop creating.
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I did kindergarten twice because I was so shy.
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Anytime I get to help the firefighters, I will. I'm real lucky to be in a position to help.
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For they might be parted for hundreds of years, she and Peter; she never wrote a letter and his were dry sticks; but suddenly it would come over her, If he were with me now what would he say? --some days, some sights bringing him back to her calmly, without the old bitterness; which perhaps was the reward of having cared for people; they came back in the middle of St. James's Park on a fine morning--indeed they did.
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Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.
