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Timothy Noah Quotes

You can be president of the United States and have the best, most bipartisan-seeming idea in the world. But if it doesn't have a constituency, you might as well be town clerk of Toad Suck, Arkansas.

Timothy Noah

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1958

Topics

Best World You President Well Idea

Just like my agent had told me, Tom Brady is a really cool, down to earth guy.

Jimmy Garoppolo

Me Cool Down Earth Down To Earth

Our beliefs create the kind of world we believe in. We project our feelings, thoughts and attitudes onto the world. I can create a different world by changing my belief about the world. Our inner state creates the outer and not vice versa.

John Bradshaw

Thoughts World Believe I Can Create

I think all of my male characters, I suppose, in all of my films, they're not necessarily the traditional version of masculinity.

Andrew Haigh

Think Masculinity Traditional I Think

I think we all have a responsibility to tell good stories.

John Krasinski

Good Responsibility Think Tell

I read Herman Hesse's 'Siddhartha' while I was writing 'Lord of Light' along with many other things. It seemed a good time to read it so I could see what he had to say about Buddha. In my first chapter, I was thinking in terms of the big battle scene in the 'Mahabarata.' It helped me in visualizing the battle in my novel.

Roger Zelazny

Good Time Light Me Writing Thinking

The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.

Rowan Atkinson

Criticism View Problem Point Of View

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Michel de Montaigne

Courage True Virtues Generous Most

Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.

Lou Reed

Work Keep Going New York Writing New

Clearly, if we'd had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color.

Douglas Trumbull

Light Color Now Kind More Gate

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.

Craig Bruce

Genius Place Understand First Being

I've always been a huge John Guare fan. But Edward Albee - he just can't be beat.

Colin Donnell

Always Beat Been Just Fan He

I hate when there's a deleted scene on a DVD with no explanation, or you have to go out of your way to find an alternate audio track.

Peyton Reed

Hate You Find Go Way Out