Franklin Foer Quotes
Mark Zuckerberg talks about telepathy, and Elon Musk has invested in trying to create a brain-machine interface.
Quotes to Explore
-
I love French films, and I copy things I see in them. I read magazines and also look at Tumblr. I love nails, so I literally just search the word 'nails' on Tumblr and start looking.
-
You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
-
I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
-
Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
-
I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
-
I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
-
There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
-
The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.
-
We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
-
Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
-
In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
-
A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.
-
Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
-
'The Art Student's War' is, at its core, a traditional American wartime love story. As such, it is timely and engrossing. By the end, all its principal characters 'have been to Hell and back.'
-
My parents got me in trouble when I was in school because someone was getting bullied, and I didn't do anything about it. I just watched it happen and then came to the school, and I got cussed out for not helping and not being a part of it.
-
As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.
-
In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
-
I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases.
-
As a child, I watched 'Dallas' and that was my vision for my life for as long as I could remember.
-
After I made it to the NBA, I said that I didn't want to be the last player from Africa. After my rookie year, I went to the league and talked about this, and they embraced my idea and started conducting basketball clinics in Africa, and that's when I knew I wouldn't be the last African.
-
One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
-
It's really important to stay engaged and involved in the character.
-
I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest.
-
Mark Zuckerberg talks about telepathy, and Elon Musk has invested in trying to create a brain-machine interface.
