Franklin Foer Quotes
Mark Zuckerberg talks about telepathy, and Elon Musk has invested in trying to create a brain-machine interface.Franklin Foer
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
Ian Fleming -
I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
Patrick Fischler -
Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
Vanna Bonta -
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 -
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 -
There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
C. S. Forester
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The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.
Barry Ritholtz -
We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
Calvin Johnson -
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 -
A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.
Narada Michael Walden -
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 -
'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
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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 -
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 -
In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
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.
Gary Calamar -
There's nothing in Hollywood that's inherently detrimental to good art. I think that's a fallacy that we've created because we frame the work that way too overtly. 'This is Hollywood.' 'This isn't Hollywood.' It's like, 'No, this is actually all Hollywood.' People are just framing them differently.
Barry Jenkins -
The first time I went to Iraq was October 2002, when Saddam was still in power, and then, subsequently, in January of 2003, about three-and-a-half months before the U.S. invasion. So, I got to see the before and after of Iraq, basically, before and after the war.
Farnaz Fassihi
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A lunch date is more fun than a dinner date; you're not tired. It's a secret that not a lot of other parents told me about.
Jessica Capshaw -
Impact sourcing, a new initiative piloted by the Rockefeller Foundation and several key partners, including my company Samasource, promises to connect poor and marginalized people to digital jobs on a massive scale.
Leila Janah -
I would think that other people could see if you had other talents. I grew and expanded from the Elly May role. I was doing real estate and personal appearances and kept my foot in the door.
Donna Douglas -
Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
Carl Hiaasen -
I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then the banal, everyday context in which we find ourselves.
Rachel Joyce -
Mark Zuckerberg talks about telepathy, and Elon Musk has invested in trying to create a brain-machine interface.
Franklin Foer