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We're playing soft. We're listening to all the hype. We've got to get back that starving attitude. It's been lacking lately.


Joakim Noah

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NOAH GORDON When the topic is growing income inequality, it's hard to prettify an imbalance between the rich...
TIMOTHY NOAH In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to m...
TIMOTHY NOAH Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era mak...
NOAH FELDMAN Iraqi national identity under Saddam Hussein never truly incorporated Shiites or Kurds. Sunnis, who ...
NOAH FELDMAN The Kurds were the only people in Iraq who were completely unguarded in expressing their gratitude t...
TIMOTHY NOAH If one does not wish to take the word of journalists, human rights groups, and the United Nations th...
TIMOTHY NOAH The transformation of the United States from a traditional republic to a democratic nation run in la...
NOAH FELDMAN To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America he...
TIMOTHY NOAH There's more outrage on Twitter about a One Direction split or about what one band member said t...
TREVOR NOAH A movie set or any set is a completely private place and it feels very insulated.
NOAH EMMERICH I know he's been working really hard. I talk to him all the time, and I feel like he's trying as har...
YANNICK NOAH We weren't supposed to make it here in time for the game but we flew to Miami and chartered a plane ...
YANNICK NOAH Looking back, that was selfish of me.
YANNICK NOAH It made me hungry. I feel like I'm in a program that really helped me individually as a player. I fe...
YANNICK NOAH I'm really surprised by the way he's playing, especially the last few weeks. He's working hard, and ...
YANNICK NOAH It's going to start really interfering with your quality of life, your health, if you don't ...
NOAH BAUMBACH We often imagine that the court serves as a sort of neutral umpire controlling the warring political...
NOAH FELDMAN Life is not being good or bad, Its how much we desire to choose between them
NELSON NOAH In a way, machines are lucky because they are not produced by chance or mistake
NELSON NOAH The embourgeoisement of China's proletariat may be the inevitable result of its industrializatio...
TIMOTHY NOAH Woody Allen's movies are so much a part of me. I grew up watching them over and over and would r...
NOAH BAUMBACH Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her ...
NOAH WEBSTER We live in an era of mind-blowing scientific discovery, virtually none of which ever makes the front...
TIMOTHY NOAH Every creature alive lives by the Golden Rule, which they take to mean - get all the gold you can
NOAH GOLDSTEIN