Franklin Foer Quotes

Mark Zuckerberg talks about telepathy, and Elon Musk has invested in trying to create a brain-machine interface.

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• Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

  

  Owen Feltham
  • Change
  • Perfect
  • Perfection

• 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.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Things
  • See
  • Word

• I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.

  

  K. Flay
  • Different
  • Important
  • Think

• You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Live
  • Death
  • Look

• I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.

  

  Patrick Fischler
  • People
  • Hate
  • Things

• Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Gossip

• I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Life
  • Want
  • You

• I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • Up
  • Think

• There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • End

• The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Free
  • Beauty
  • Lunch

• We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Understand
  • Just
  • Privilege

• 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.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • Political
  • Independence

• 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?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Like
  • Voice
  • Sound

• 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.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Country
  • Beauty
  • Movies

• '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.'

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Art
  • War
  • Story

• 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.

  

  Zendaya
  • School
  • Parents
  • Helping

• 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.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• I just want to keep writing music.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Want

• Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat... Never take yourself too seriously.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Life
  • Help
  • Pain

• Gays don't have a lot of testosterone. I'm talking about that they use both sides of their brain. Straight men only use one side. Gay men are very bright, very handsome... they put themselves better together. They dress good, they decorate, they clean, they cook.

  

  Patti Stanger
  • Good
  • Men
  • Together

• We haven't really changed, we've just gotten better at executing what we've always been trying to do. We're not really a band that has undergone huge stylistic decisions to change, we're just trying to follow the song. More and more, we let the song lead us - we don't try and put the song into a structure of our taste or our fashion.

  

  Torquil Campbell Broken Social Scene
  • Trying
  • Song
  • Fashion

• It was a precondition to leaving Facebook that I wasn't going to start something that was just about chasing money.

  

  Dustin Moskovitz
  • Money
  • Leaving

• Mark Zuckerberg talks about telepathy, and Elon Musk has invested in trying to create a brain-machine interface.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • Trying
  • Brain