Yannick Noah Quotes
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I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.
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I believe, certainly in the NHL, a player who can help a team win because he can contribute on the ice is going to be coveted whatever his beliefs may be or whoever he may be. That goes to national origin, religious beliefs, or sexuality.
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It's a massive consumer frustration around the world about how long they have to wait after the U.S. to see television shows and movies. In the U.S., there's the frustration of having to wait a year to watch a movie in the format that you choose.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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I feel the happiest when I'm at the golf course. And I feel calm when I'm on the golf course. I think I'm just a much better person when I'm on the golf course.
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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
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There is always the fear of failure, and if you struggle, you become nervous, and that's when the underdogs have an opportunity to create a surprise.
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The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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You look at science fiction and look how often it talks about being alien, being alienated about the other. Look at the number of blue people - 'Avatar,' I'm looking at you. And it is now easier to find people of color in science-fiction literature and media, but the issues of representation are still really, really troubling.
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I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.
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There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
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That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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I was interested in virtual reality for several years even before working at USC, it wasn't an interest that started there at all. In fact, when I started working at USC, I already had prototypes of the Rift that were very similar to the final design.
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
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In art, there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists. And in the end, doesn't the revolutionary's work become official, once the State takes it over?
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I don’t have all the answers. I don’t know anyone who does. But this is certain: too many people have lost their lives who shouldn’t have.
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What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War?
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It has always been important to me to be a creative artist, not to be a star, not to be rich, not to be famous.
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We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man to all life.
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The important thing is staying together if you want to do something special.
