B.J. Novak

“pay him back, we really would have to do something”

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“All eyes are beautiful, I said, which is why it’s such an easy compliment.”

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“Do you think why not is ultimately a better question than why? Why or why not?”

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“I could imagine being his mom and loving him a lot, if that makes sense.”

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“...slow and steady wins the race, till truth and talent claim their place.”

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“Everything helped a little bit, at first; but nothing really helped.”

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“I feel like I didn't earn these stories, I feel like they just happened to me.”

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“Do you think Johnny Depp should have driven his motorcycle off the mountain highway to his death? Why or why not?”

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“Love always won in the end. No matter how it happened, no matter what it took, no matter what it meant. Fair…

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“The Battle Creek, Michigan, headquarters of Kellogg’s looks like a spaceship built to look like a pyramid that was then hastily converted…

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“ Kindness Among Cakes CHILD: “Why does carrot cake have the best icing?” MOTHER: “Because it needs the best icing.”

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“Being young was her thing, and she was the best at it. But every year, more and more girls came out of…

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“he seemed to be blazing outside the lines of his own body, as if he were drawn in crayon by an excited…

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“But I didn't mind. I loved that everything was cataloged and ready to go and that I was technically now living and…

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“He loved saying “Rome” like that. “Head into Rome,” “swing by Rome.” It was just the nearest place to them. How cool…

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“Being young was her thing, and she was the best at it. But every year, more and more girls came out of…

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“It is an inside joke of history that all its most exciting adventures inevitably end their careers as homework. Beheadings, rebellions, thousand-year…

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“What needed to stop was the succession of dates with these relatively impressive, relatively interesting people, when I could tell from the…

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“Josh Funk and Hunter Fraser: we haven't been in touch in years, but you made me feel like the funniest kid in…

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“John Grisham exhaled, feeling his breath leave his body as he did, like his wife’s yoga instructor had taught him to do…

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“Do you think discussion questions can be unfairly leading sometimes? Why? • Who are we supposed to be discussing these questions with?…

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“You want to meet someone who likes the same things you do, and who likes you most when you're most being yourself,…

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“Nobody knew why the market was down that day. But it didn’t stop everyone from having a theory. “Worries over Spain’s role…

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“What’s the difference between this school and a happy retirement community?” The room was silent again. “The difference is ’rithmetic! A retired…

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“In the aftermath of an athletic humiliation on an unprecedented scale—a loss to a tortoise in a footrace so staggering that, his…

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“People who knew me and sympathized with me were determined to set me up with the other people they sympathized with and…

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“I can’t even handle love, there’s no way I can handle it being taken away. I won’t survive it. Please. Please. Please!”…

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“In my opinion, there are two types of perfect. The first is the type that seems so obvious and intuitive to you…

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