Franklin Foer Quotes

My dad has been in the fight against monopoly since it wasn't so cool. I'm sure I've turned to the subject to please him, though I think he might consider some of my arguments a little flamethrowing for his tastes.

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• What Washington needs is adult supervision.

  

  Barack Obama
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• The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!

  

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• There's nothing fun about 30 people standing around watching you, like, pretend to pleasure someone. Nothing enjoyable about it, believe me.

  

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• I was a gymnast when I was little, like 8, 9, 10.

  

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• Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

  

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• Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

  

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• When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.

  

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• There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

  

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• If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Think
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• If people are paying money to see me, then I want them to walk away from the show knowing they had a really great time. I want it to be very energetic and to have fun, sad, emotional and uplifting moments. I want it to have everything!

  

  Olly Murs
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• God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

  

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• I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.

  

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• A girl's best friend is her pride.

  

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• I used to be affected by criticism thrown at me, and I would get really down. But I got to a point where I just decided to go for it, no matter what negativity is around you.

  

  Yuna
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• But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.

  

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• What's in the movie compared to what we shot is the tip of the iceberg.

  

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• I played in a punk rock band in high school called the High Heel Flip Flops. I was the drummer. I played drums for, like, four years.

  

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• Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

  

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• An idealist is ahead of his time only in the sense that he is articulate. The same is true of a nation. For even primitive people, even effete races have a message for those above or below them. The heritage of the Ideal, however small can not be exhausted.

  

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• When people used to ask me what I missed about America, I would say, 'The optimism.' I grew up in the land of hope, then moved to one whose catchphrases are 'It's not possible' and 'Hell is other people.' I walked around Paris feeling conspicuously chipper.

  

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• When I was young, I kept a diary for about 10 years and I had to write in it every day. Even on days when nothing seemed to happen, I made myself think of something to put in it.

  

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• My dad has been in the fight against monopoly since it wasn't so cool. I'm sure I've turned to the subject to please him, though I think he might consider some of my arguments a little flamethrowing for his tastes.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • Dad
  • Cool