Timothy Noah Quotes

The U.S. policy of hoarding crude oil never made the world, or even the U.S., a safer place.

Timothy Noah

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WorldPlaceOilNeverPolicyMade

I got an agent when I was 16 up in Vancouver, Canada.

Jessica Lowndes

CanadaUpGotVancouverAgent

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.

John Bunyan

WordsEasyAirHighMarkUnderstood

If you can't send your daughter to school when you know it will help her, you feel a sense of failure, and you feel that failure deeply.

Ann Cotton

FailureDaughterSchoolHelpYou

I think I made $55 a week, and it was bliss... I was doing theater. It was all I ever wanted to do. It was so much fun, and you got paid for it, and you met people, and it's the greatest education in the world. And in my little Greenbrier station wagon, I felt very much like a troubadour.

Jeffrey Tambor

EducationFunPeopleWorldThink

Whenever I hear someone describe something as a 'kids movie' or a 'family movie,' it immediately has a negative connotation in my mind because I think, 'Well, as an adult, I wouldn't go see it by myself, because it's purely for children and it holds nothing for me and it's simplistic and it's kind of easy.'

Steve Carell

FamilyChildrenMyselfMindMeEasy

Smart beauty is about looking your best and feeling your best and never overpaying for it.

Stacy London

BeautyBestSmartLookingFeeling

I think there is something in my books that says these are people doing their best under difficult circumstances - sometimes they do wrong things and make mistakes, but who doesn't? And who wants to read about somebody who never does?

Sonya Hartnett

BestMistakesPeopleThinkDoing

As most of the population suffers through life, barely surviving, disappointed and confused day after day, hopeless, wondering what happened to their strong and beautiful country, it is in the media's power to restore, if not some of our quality of life, at least a bit of our peace of mind.

Steven Van Zandt

LifePowerBeautifulQualityDay

Endnotes, often confused with footnotes that live at the bottom of a page, is that lump of text at the end of the book, sometimes even relegated to a tiny font size. They're often forgotten but, in nonfiction, particularly history books, can offer a fascinating footprint into the author's research, a joyful, geeky abyss.

Mary Pilon

LiveHistoryResearchBookEndPage

Being out and about talking to residents and representing their views is, in my view, as important to politics as the grandstanding that takes place in Westminster.

Lucy Powell

PoliticsViewTalkingPlaceOut

Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.

Jawaharlal Nehru

TruthHumbleThinkLittleMayUs

I don't see how it's a risky thing to take a great part with a great director and a great script. That, to me, is not really a dangerous, risky proposition. It's actually a really good choice.

Dennis Quaid

GoodGreatMeChoiceDangerousSee

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