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.
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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.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
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There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
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The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.
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We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
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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.
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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?
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A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.
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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.
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'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.'
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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.
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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.
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Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.
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We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.
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The fear of a work becoming dated is one of the most effective tools for keeping people from writing political work.
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I'm always attracted to people who interest me. They've got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They're interested in people.
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Conservatives like to insist that their judges are strict constructionists, giving the Constitution and statutes their precise meaning and no more, while judges like Ms. Sotomayor are activists. But there is no magic right way to interpret terms like 'free speech' or 'due process' - or potato chip.
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Mark Zuckerberg talks about telepathy, and Elon Musk has invested in trying to create a brain-machine interface.
