One of the things I like about comedy in general is that it affords Asian Americans the opportunity to not be noble.
I don’t know why people feel the need to do this to me, but my friend asked my dad, ‘Aren’t your proud of Jimmy now that he’s a successful actor?’ And my dad was like, ‘No, not really. I wish he was a scientist.’ I guess scientist is more noble in the Asian culture.
Barnes & Noble is able to publish price-reduced non-copyrighted works not so much because it saves the 10 percent to 15 percent of revenue that would go to the gruel-eating authors, but because it saves the 50 percent that would go to the publishers.
I am ready to sacrifice everything in completing the unfinished agenda of our noble jihad… until there is no bloodshed in Afghanistan and Islam becomes a way of life for our people.
The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans.
I’m always astonished when I go into Barnes & Noble at the number of people buying books, of course, but also at the variety of books they do buy and the extent to which they are not the big bestsellers.
It is proper that noble spirits, equipped with truth and enlightened with the Divine intelligence, should arm themselves against dense ignorance by climbing up to the high rock and tower of contemplation.
Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.
There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
The noble gases, which reside on the East Coast of the periodic table, are its aristocrats – detached and aloof, never bothering to interact with the rabble of common elements that make up the vast majority of the world.
At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.
The market economy is deeply congruent with the values set out in the Hebrew Bible. Material prosperity is a divine blessing. Poverty crushes the spirit as well as the body, and its alleviation is a sacred task. Work is a noble calling.
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
When my company does a good job, we make people happy. They laugh, they smile, they have a good time – that’s what we do for a living. Any business doing that is making a noble effort.
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
I always considered the role of teaching to be very noble and relevant.
I was a huge fan of the bandleader Ray Noble when I was younger. He was one of the biggest musical names of his day and wrote such romantic songs as ‘Goodnight Sweetheart’ and ‘The Touch Of Your Lips.’ Wonderful stuff.
A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.
A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
Education is such a noble profession, it’s a wonderful way to serve.
I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it’s narcissistic and pointless.
Better not be at all than not be noble.
All first responders do noble work, and all of them deserve our respect and our appreciation.
George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters.
A worthy woman personifies the truly noble and worthwhile attributes of life.
What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.
Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge.
I think that is a noble goal that all of us should seek, to end wars and prevent wars as much as possible.
Call it Camelot’s revenge: the class of court scribes who made it their profession to uphold a make-believe version of America free of conflict and ruled by noble men helped Nixon get away with it for so long – because, after all, America was ruled by noble men.
It is a true man’s part not to err, but it is also noble of a man to perceive his error.
Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.
Journalists like to give themselves credit for being on the hunt for ‘the truth.’ But if we embrace this undoubtedly noble but somewhat haughty interpretation of a calling, we inevitably become susceptible to slam dunk answers.
Being a musician is a noble profession.
Those who are most pious and noble tend to be the least tolerant.
Teachers do the noble work of educating our children. And we can’t thank them enough for the hard work they put in every day to ensure a bright future for all of us.
It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well… than to kill ten thousand.
The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
