Franklin Foer Quotes
There's an oft-used shorthand for the technologist's view of the world. It is assumed that libertarianism dominates Silicon Valley, and that isn't wholly wrong. High-profile devotees of Ayn Rand can be found there.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.
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I think that my parents' divorce gave me a very strong sense of self-reliance and independence. I realised that I needed to make sure I could support myself because you don't know what's going to happen in the future.
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When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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Justice is revenge.
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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
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I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
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While Romney has an overall deficit with women voters, his biggest disadvantage is with college educated women - wherever they work, at home, in an office, a store or a factory.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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Dolphins games always have been among the most popular NFL telecasts in England.
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It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.
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I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.
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In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.
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Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.
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Filmmaking has always involved pairs: a director coupled with a producer, a director alongside an editor... The notion of couples is not foreign to cinema.
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You give me the feeling that the universeWas made by something more than humanFor something less than human.But I identify myself, as always,With something that there's something wrong with,With something human.
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There's an oft-used shorthand for the technologist's view of the world. It is assumed that libertarianism dominates Silicon Valley, and that isn't wholly wrong. High-profile devotees of Ayn Rand can be found there.
