Timothy Noah Quotes

Is class snobbery a social reality in the United States? Absolutely, and the kind that's codified by meritocracy is probably more toxic than the old-fashioned kind based on bloodlines.

Timothy Noah

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I used to do a little acting in school. It was my first love, and I really thought I would be doing it as a career. I really wanted to complete that part of my ambition.

Jimmy Cliff

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If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people He gives it to.

Joe Moore

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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.

John Burroughs

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Anytime you're saying that a person will be thinking one way or another or biased one way or another just based upon race, I just think it's certainly going to be subject to that criticism of racism.

Matt Mead

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I live in the woods, so really the only way you can get to me is if you send a letter.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

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Many of life's problems and sorrows are inevitable, but feeling sorry for yourself is a choice.

Amy Morin

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I've never seen someone work for a salary.

Sophia Amoruso

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Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce.

Robert Fitzgerald

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There is no rule of law in Zimbabwe; there's selective application of the rule of law. Patrick Chinamasa, who is the minister of justice, destroyed the independent judiciary.

Roy Bennett

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Now a 'funnyman' can get a laugh before opening his mouth - looking funny. Lou Costello was one of your great funnymen. Harry Langdon, Larry Semon; they were all funnymen - they looked funny. W.C. Fields was never a comedian. Slim Summerville was a comedian, yet looked funny. Now if you have both attributes, you are in good shape.

Milton Berle

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I was funny in a way that was not dissing the teacher; I was funny just to be funny. A real charmer with a prominent mustache that he didn't know what to do with and a smart-alecky attitude.

Jason Mantzoukas

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Acting had become something I did and did well - but didn't particularly enjoy.

Dennis Christopher

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