B.J. Novak Quotes

If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds?

Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.

If you want to live on the edge of life, you need to be flexible.

If you're wanting glamorous or really beautiful or really sexy, well then, I wasn't really the one, but I could do all of that. You could just get really lost in that kind of image.

So, Hitchcock wouldn't say anything about my work in the movie but, on the other hand, he wouldn't complain, either.

I live way out in the country, so there's not a lot of people around to remind me. And my friends don't think of me as 'Kim Novak' anymore anyway. It's like they forgot, too. And so it's nice.

Harry Cohn did not make me. But I also feel that I probably didn't make me, either. I think it was a combination. I think that's what made it work.

I knew Rita Hayworth only enough to know that she was just a tender, sensitive, beautiful human being. A lovely person. Very gentle. She would never stand up for her rights.

The Lord God, the creator of Judaism and the God of Judaism and Christianity, empowered our minds and gave us the ability to question.

Each year represents new challenges and obstacles. You have to adjust.

I haven't been in tennis for that long, but what I can say is that we have a lot of young guys at the top who are willing to do a lot of good things for tennis in general.

In order to stay where I am - and I want to do that - I have to stay dedicated as well as I have been before I became No. 1.

Imagine a part of the U.S.A., from which the U.S.A. started - where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo for Serbia.

I'm not in a party. I am a party.

It is hard to write about politicians, see them at such close range, and still think of any of them as heroes.

I think it's better to not know certain things. It gives the world an extra bit of mystery, which is important to us as human beings.

Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.

I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.

Perfect. Why was this so hard to find?”The other type of perfect is the type you never could have expected and then could never replicate.

Restless thoughts are a kind of mental 'static' which must be silenced if we are to hear the whispers of our inner self.

My security comes from my senses, my sensing the direction I should go and suddenly I felt out of tune, out of step with what other people wanted or what other people expected of me.

The thing I loved about Alfred Hitchcock is that he left a lot of open ends there, a lot of clues that didn't really add up the way you think they would, and sometimes, not at all.

I tried so hard with movies like Vertigo and Middle of the Night and others. I felt those would show me that it's only a matter of time before I'd find the right one to reach out and touch people.

As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person.

I don't feel that I was a Hollywood-created star.

Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.

In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.

Even rock stars are entitled to privacy.

Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant.

My father believed in me many times more than I believed in myself.

Mostly the problems when I was down were caused by myself. There were times when I was not responsible enough or decisive enough.

Building a solid foundation in the early years of a child's life will not only help him or her reach their full potential but will also result in better societies as a whole.

I remember as a kid, I was improvising and making little trophies out of different materials and going in front of the mirror, lifting the trophies and saying 'Nole was the champion!'

I embraced, I think, the process of becoming No. 1 of the world, which was long and difficult, but it's sweeter in the end.

It gives me goose bumps and little butterflies in the stomach when I start thinking about the 'golden slam.'

Nadal's the best player in history on [clay], and he is one of the best-ever players that played this game.

He was my favorite senator... I love him. He made the liberals squeal.

You want continual improvement? Then I challenge every employee in an organization to discard the status quo and ask themselves everyday, How can I improve my job?, then find a way to make it happen.

Well, I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name.

I had a lot of resentment for a while toward Kim Novak. But I don't mind her anymore. She's okay. We've become friends. I even asked her before this trip for some beauty tips.

Sports events do not really exist at all unless there is a certain order and fairness - justice in each event.

Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams.

Coaches are very important to players. They're people that are mentors, people that are advising them, people that should be their friends and somebody you can rely on on the tour.

Honestly, I'm not a big fan of baseball.

I'm 72-years-old. There's not a hell of a lot they can do to me. I will continue to report what I see and what I feel to be true.

It is up to the government to keep the government's secrets.

You ever want me to show you what it's like to have a man in your bed, you know where to find me.

Mary Kay knew that when you put people first and then surround them with processes and disciplines that recognize their efforts, performance will soar.

When it comes to continual improvement programs, the biggest mistake is a failure to launch, the biggest hurdle is culture.

I love San Francisco. It would be a perfect place for a honeymoon.