Joakim Noah Quotes

Being from New York, everybody's a point guard. Even when you play in the park, you've got to know how to handle the ball. If you can't handle the ball, you can't really play.

Joakim Noah

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 25, 1985

Topics

New YorkYouPlayNewKnowPark

Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged.

Jessica Valenti

PowerJusticeWomanRacismMovement

I'm a lawyer who, on occasion, represents celebrities.

Robert Shapiro

LawyerWhoOccasionCelebrities

I often wonder why people remake movies. Is there just a lack of imagination out there that they can't come up with an original idea?

Michael Beck

ImaginationPeopleWonderMoviesWhy

Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number. A distinct word for every distinct idea and thought would require a vast vocabulary. The problem in language is to express many ideas and thoughts with comparatively few words.

John Wesley Powell

WordsIdeasThoughtsThoughtProblem

It has to be a very specific role for me because of my accent. I can't complain; I've been working since I got to LA. But it is hard. I have no training as an actress so I try whatever I do like school, because I'm learning.

Sofia Vergara

LearningTrainingSchoolMeTry

I was put on so many different musical stages growing up that I didn't think about what kind of music we played. I just thought music was music.

Trombone Shorty

MusicGrowing UpThinkThoughtKind

I've worked as grocery store cashier; I've worked at a bank call center and as a Lady Liberty for Liberty Tax Service dancing around with the sign for a while.

Ron Funches

ServiceLadyLibertyTaxDancing

It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.

Mary Gordon

WomenCourageSchoolPoetryMeMove

If people are going to judge me without fully understanding the content of my character, then their opinion just isn't worth it.

Jazz Jennings

CharacterPeopleMeOpinionJudge

Ultimately what I end up writing about is helplessness and the flipside of that, empowerment.

Joss Whedon

WritingEndEmpowermentUpAbout

Writers are completely out of touch with reality.

Joss Whedon

RealityTouchOutWriters

I'm a Batman fan from Day 1. My daughter's favorite is Wonder Woman, and my son loves The Flash, Cyborg, and Superman.

Jason Momoa

SonDaughterDayWomanWonderFan

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