Noah Quotes

I think spirituality is a good thing but I dislike any sort of dogmatic organization.

Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia.

It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else.

The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good and the best corrector of all that is evil in human society; the best book for regulating the temporal [secular] concerns of men.

Power is always right, weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic.

We expect forty-year-olds to have grown up at some point, and to be engaged and adult and take responsibility, and doing nothing would seem to go against that.

The laws are the sole guardians of right, and when the magistrate dares not act, every person is insecure.

I think when you are named Noah, you are destined for a certain way of life.

A film set becomes its own family anyway, and all family dynamics come out during a shoot. The trick is hiring people who know how to handle that.

I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.

When you find yourself on the Internet when you're supposed to be writing, you've already lost. It's even beyond procrastination when you end up on the Internet.

I hate using this term [miracle]. I'm a man of science. I'm a doctor. I don't use this word. But he said, it's a miracle your mom's alive.

To be in the 1% you have to do what the 99% won't.

It's the reason the United States fell into the Patriot Act - because they were reacting.

The police didn't afford you a phone call. You just disappeared for a while. And what was scary was we lived in a state where some people disappeared forever.

I've lived many places all over the world, so I've always seen myself as a citizen of the world.

When a person screams in pain, the actual pain is only half the noise they make. The other half is the terror at being forced to accept that they exist.

I feel a real connection to Brooklyn, certainly, because I spent 20 years of my life there, but I don't think of myself as a Brooklyn artist any more than I think of myself as a male artist.

Atreyu comes from a land called Fantasia. It's an imaginary land.

My favorite business book of all time is experience.

People always thought if no one believed in God and we were nihilists then people would go around murdering each other. That didn't happen at all, we just bought a lot of things with credit.

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

Use only things you find around the bathroom to create something. Extra credit: make it in the bathroom!

I've definitely had someone ask to touch [my hair] . That weirded me out a little bit.

I've heard that shampooing your hair everyday is bad for the scalp.

I probably get it trimmed once every two months or so. I've just been going to the salon in the city, and they'll clean it up a bit.

But, I'm a big Johnny Cash and a big Lou Reed fan and a Fellini fan.

I learned to use language like my mother did. I would simulcast, give you the program in your own tongue.

We all do that as human beings, you know? It's what my mom would call shopping on an empty stomach. You're going to buy food that you shouldn't because, at the time, you are reacting to your hunger.

Now everyone has eyes, and now everyone has evidence. That's really changed how we tell the news and what we get from it.

The Moral Law is summarily contained in the Decalogue or Ten Commandments; written by the finger of God on two tablets of stone, and delivered to Moses on Mount Sinai.

Peter Bogdanovich is a good friend.

Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her honor.

If you look at this election, I feel like Donald Trump was speaking a different language to Hillary Clinton.

Let's not forget how beautiful simply washing dishes can be.

Relief of distress or compassion shown to victims of misfortune. A blessing that is an act of Divine compassion.

Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God.

I am a big lover of the environment. I actually come from Maine, which is pretty much all environment.

I have been given much, and so I want to give as much as I can.

I still live today with my mom sending me, you know, Hebrew Scriptures or phrases or celebrating.

The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it.

Other people are as alive as you are. Cruelty is a failure of imagination.

Compassion is a mixed passion, composed of love and sorrow.

I think when you look at religion, you look at where Christianity came from. You know, my mom delved deeper into that. And she felt a deep connection.

It's weird, I actually like doing interviews now.

Customer service, they say, is dead. Actually, it isn't. It's just hiding behind a call center in Manila.

I lived my life as a - as a part-white, part-black but then sometimes-Jewish kid.

Twitter is a place where there is extreme vitriol at all times.

When you see someone as a human being, you begin to understand most people are doing what they believe is right. I ask myself, "What if you were wrong? How would you want someone to engage with you?"

It's kind of major, learning to drive. I feel like it kicked up other stuff in my life.