Franklin Foer Quotes

I'm reading the way a lot of technology executives have decried 'gatekeepers' and 'traditional media,' and that one of the promises of 'new media' was that it would break the chokehold that old media companies had on public opinion.

Franklin Foer

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• I always wanted to do creative things, but I was really interested in entrepreneurship. My family comes from a very entrepreneurial culture, so business was always something I was interested in.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Family
  • Business
  • Culture

• I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Writing
  • Ideas
  • Down

• I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Art
  • College
  • Painting

• Let us have peace.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Peace
  • U.S.
  • Let Us

• The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Period

• I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Control
  • Problem

• We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Life
  • Human
  • Abundance

• The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Great
  • American
  • History

• Gautham was a premature baby. I remember when doctors said that his health condition was critical, I was tense. I could afford the treatment, but a lot of commoners can't. I believe more children's lives can be saved if we work towards it.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Children

• The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Me
  • Reading
  • Look

• I love snacks, but I'm kind of growing out of them. I'm getting into fruit and Clif Bars.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Growing
  • Kind
  • Getting

• I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Never
  • Lazy
  • Vote

• We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Up
  • Week
  • Out

• The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Magic
  • First
  • Broadway

• Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • World
  • Security

• Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Life
  • Living
  • Duty

• The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Action
  • Lies

• If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Something
  • Before
  • Shy

• Human history is a Gaian dream.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Dream

• I was doing this children's theater play, and it was non-Equity. We were out of town to do it at the Kennedy Center, and it was always kind of, 'Well, the producers may have to turn this into Equity,' and that's what happened. It was kind of a silly children's theater play, but that's how I got my card.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • Children
  • May
  • Silly

• Titan has rivers and lakes of liquid methane and ethane, methane weather systems of clouds and storms that mirror Earth's hydrologic cycle, and seasonal cycles that rival Earth's in complexity.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • Earth
  • Mirror
  • Clouds

• Even if it's a wonderful life, you wanna go somewhere and see the way other people reflect on the world and the lives that we're all living... I think regional theater is the life blood of our cultural lives.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Not every movie, in my opinion, should be in 3D. There are a lot of stories I wouldn't shoot in 3D. But, you know, there are movies that are perfect in 3D.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Movie
  • Opinion
  • 3D

• I'm reading the way a lot of technology executives have decried 'gatekeepers' and 'traditional media,' and that one of the promises of 'new media' was that it would break the chokehold that old media companies had on public opinion.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • Reading
  • Technology
  • Opinion