Timothy Noah Quotes

Is New Ageism inherently fascist? Of course not, though I'm happy to pronounce its babble about chakras and cosmic energy errant quackery.

Timothy Noah

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HappyEnergyNewAgeismCourse

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Joan of Arc

TruthChildrenPeopleSometimesSay

The first memory I have was my sisters dancing to the radio when they played records by Benny Goodman and Harry James and of the sort. But the record that got me was a record by Derek Sampson, who was a young guy, called 'Boogie Express,' and it was boogie-woogie. Really, it was on fire, and that got me.

Jerry Leiber

FireMemoryMeYoungFirstRadio

If you want a more productive economy, you need to invest in the skills of our workforce.

Jeremy Corbyn

YouSkillsWantMoreNeedEconomy

I don't gamble at all, all my life. I am only interested in sports.

Stanley Ho

LifeSportsI AmMy LifeInterested

The uprising in Egypt was initiated by the young generation. The uprising achieved two things. One is it made the lives of dictators impossible. Today, if you are looking for a safe job, don't become a dictator.

Shimon Peres

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My goal is to live to be 100.

Tommy Lasorda

LiveGoal

But through experience I learned to control my body and locate the ball.

Dennis Eckersley

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A hoodie is worn by everybody: kids, white men, white women, black men. But it clings to the black body as a sign of criminality like nothing else.

Claudia Rankine

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The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago.

Boris Becker

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Puerto Rico is one of those places you can be as quiet or as crazy as you want, because there's so much nightlife. I have to take the craziness carefully.

Bruce Forsyth

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As a character actor, you go out for all different kinds of things.

Arden Myrin

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It is a matter of concern that science departments in India's vast university system have suffered greatly due to lack of investments, both material and in terms of faculty.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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