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There's not many good comedies to watch - you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.


B. J. Novak

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NOVAK DJOKOVIC Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The ...
MICHAEL NOVAK I opened up a bit and explained that I have a type I'm drawn to naturally, but that I've found that ...
B.J. NOVAK For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe ...
KIM NOVAK The thing I loved about Alfred Hitchcock is that he left a lot of open ends there, a lot of clues th...
KIM NOVAK My nutritionist has done a great job in changing my diet after we established I am allergic to thing...
NOVAK DJOKOVIC Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in...
ROBERT NOVAK Roots can live without branches, although truncated; branches cannot live without roots.
DAVID NOVAK I embraced, I think, the process of becoming No. 1 of the world, which was long and difficult, but i...
NOVAK DJOKOVIC The most important part of the process of mourning is regularly reciting kaddish in a synagogue. Kad...
DAVID NOVAK We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on an...
MICHAEL NOVAK I think luck falls on not just the brave but also the ones who believe they belong there.
NOVAK DJOKOVIC ...the difference between love and everything else is that it's infinite, it's built out of somethin...
B.J. NOVAK You think a million billion more things will come your way, a million billion more versions of every...
B.J. NOVAK It's interesting that I had such a close relationship with my grandfather. Because your parents ...
NOVAK DJOKOVIC All modern secularity requires is that our public norms and the arguments for them not presuppose co...
DAVID NOVAK Foundational autonomy asserts instead that in the most fundamental practical sense, I am my own crea...
DAVID NOVAK Tennis players we're always playing in center courts that feel like arenas. And when we get on t...
NOVAK DJOKOVIC Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, ...
DAVID NOVAK Nobody from the administration has officially rejected my column.
BOB NOVAK I didn't dig it out, it was given to me. They thought it was significant, they gave me the name and ...
BOB NOVAK I don't think we've ever printed anything that really did any damage to someone.
BOB NOVAK I'd like CBS, at this point, to say where they got those documents from. I think they should say whe...
BOB NOVAK In Coral Gables to cover the first Bush-Kerry debate, I had stupidly slipped on the water on the bat...
BOB NOVAK Nobody knew what to expect with these new banks coming in.
BOB NOVAK where his friend and colleague -- Rep. James Clyburn, the state's only black congressman -- controls...
BOB NOVAK I'm not one of the real good guys. They try to make things nicer. That's not my deal.
BOB NOVAK was the runner-up to Roberts in the first selection process, but the word in legal circles is that s...
BOB NOVAK Neither George W. Bush nor John Kerry, as campaigners, wants to risk advocating cut-and-run in Iraq....
BOB NOVAK In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The def...
MICHAEL NOVAK The whole new Democratic Party is the old Republican Party. We have a whole bunch of elephants runni...
ROBERT NOVAK And I went through a lot of detours and I took a lot of roads and things so yes, that's all ther...
KIM NOVAK To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.
MICHAEL NOVAK Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop.
RALPH NOVAK Even though now I'm pretty popular in my country and tennis is the No. 1 sport, and I'm very...
NOVAK DJOKOVIC in wearing a suit, with a vest!
ROBERT NOVAK Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigil...
MICHAEL NOVAK The slogan 'Never Again!' that emerged after the Holocaust implies that the Holocaust has a ...
DAVID NOVAK Two senior administration officials told me his wife suggested sending Wilson to Niger to investigat...
ROBERT NOVAK For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe I go...
KIM NOVAK She can do anything she wants in her house, ... But it is a gilded cage.
DAVID NOVAK