The average person might well be no happier today than in 1800. Even the freedom we value so highly may be working against us. We can choose our spouses, friends and neighbors, but they can choose to leave us.


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NOAH BAUMBACH
America was a thing I saw on TV - that wasn't a real world. That wasn't within my realm of d...
TREVOR NOAH
In an ideological age, diplomacy may seem weak and prosaic. But sometimes it is all we have.
NOAH FELDMAN
The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to govern...
TIMOTHY NOAH
With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color...
TIMOTHY NOAH
Art is interesting because there can be so many different perspectives in a piece of art. The way I ...
JOAKIM NOAH
I was doing a show at the Comedy Store which Eddie Izzard saw, and we chatted for a bit afterwards. ...
TREVOR NOAH
In removing the friction involved in paying bills, electronic billing has substantially increased th...
TIMOTHY NOAH
We perceive Toronto as the festival that has the widest brim. We try to fit as much under this umbre...
NOAH COWAN
From a constitutional standpoint, the religion of a candidate is supposed to make no difference. Eve...
NOAH FELDMAN
The argument most commonly made in the filibuster's favor is crudely partisan: 'Our side may...
TIMOTHY NOAH
I'm literally driving in the middle of the night, and my phone rings, and my manager says, '...
TREVOR NOAH
Federal law prohibits anyone convicted of a felony from owning a gun. Seems like kind of a good idea...
TIMOTHY NOAH
The Pentagon got fed up with its recruits getting ripped off by payday lenders and in 2007 got Congr...
TIMOTHY NOAH
We flew to Miami and then chartered a plane here to be on time. I'm really excited, I'm proud of him...
YANNICK NOAH
The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it ...
TIMOTHY NOAH
It's nice being friends over a period of time with people whose music you like so much, or other...
NOAH BAUMBACH
It used to be for writers that that six seasons and a movie thing, that's the holy grail as writ...
NOAH HAWLEY
Greatness and fiasco is the same. You're reaching for something just out of your grasp, and if y...
NOAH HAWLEY
There's no shortage of Democrats who are at least as committed as Schwarzenegger to reducing gre...
TIMOTHY NOAH
As a kid, I thought of myself as a funny person who secretly wanted to be serious, but now I think m...
NOAH BAUMBACH
I speak French fluently, so that really helped.
NOAH HATHAWAY
In the modern world there's no such thing as formality. A dinner jacket used to mean a tuxedo, y...
NOAH EMMERICH
So we're going to do a Battlestar Galactica themed bike and bring another one of the bikes.
NOAH HATHAWAY
I've always been a fan of issues around race and racialism, and I've loved playing with it. ...
TREVOR NOAH
The doomsayers of the 1970s were wrong about how quickly the world would run out of oil, but not abo...
TIMOTHY NOAH
A film set becomes its own family anyway, and all family dynamics come out during a shoot. The trick...
NOAH BAUMBACH
The financial services industry is a ward of the state.
TIMOTHY NOAH
On Wall Street, financial crisis destroys jobs. Here in Washington, it creates them. The rest is jus...
TIMOTHY NOAH
When I was a kid, I would fantasize about my own funeral.
NOAH BAUMBACH
Atreyu comes from a land called Fantasia. It's an imaginary land.
NOAH HATHAWAY
During the New Deal, people thought to be liberal was to reject socialism on one extreme and fascism...
NOAH FELDMAN
Making 'Fargo' for FX has been the highlight of my career. A writer can search his or her wh...
NOAH HAWLEY
I drove around New York when we did the upfronts and when we premiered 'Fargo,' and they cro...
NOAH HAWLEY
In a traditional TV show or movie, your hero is always where the action is. But in real life, at the...
NOAH HAWLEY
'Fargo' is a tragedy with a happy ending. So you need to have that tragic underpinning, that...
NOAH HAWLEY
The first dumb idea was to do it at all - to take 'Fargo,' this beloved classic, and turn it...
NOAH HAWLEY
I pitched the idea to FX that there's this larger 'Fargo' universe where there's tru...
NOAH HAWLEY
'Fargo' becomes a metaphor for a type of true crime case where truth is stranger than fictio...
NOAH HAWLEY
The modern presidency, as expressed in the policies of the administration of George W. Bush, provide...
NOAH FELDMAN
I'm thinking about naming my first son Emmy so I can say I've got one. I want Emmy, Oscar an...
NOAH WYLE
Politicians have such large egos that it usually takes them an inordinately long time to grasp when ...
TIMOTHY NOAH
This is the SEC. We've got to be ready at all times. We've got to be on edge. It's unacceptable.
JOAKIM NOAH
We like to say it's acoustic driven rock.
NOAH SMITH
Was President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage crassly political? God, I hope so.
TIMOTHY NOAH
Self-realization is attained only when we comprehend the difference between the things we could own ...
NELSON NOAH
Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work.
TIMOTHY NOAH