Franklin Foer Quotes
From the start, the promise of Jurgen Klinsmann as manager of the U.S. men's national team was revolution: gritty, plodding American soccer would give way to attacking flair; the parade of journeymen would end; an era of skilled stylists would begin.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.
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The bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. Now if you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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Some people collect vintage cars, I collect Birkins. The leather ones are £20,000.
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I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
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A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
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I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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Sometimes you surf well and still don't win. It happens to everyone. You learn that one big score doesn't mean much if you don't have a backup. I guess every rookie learns that as time goes by. I took some big lessons from my losses.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
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Horseracing already has the highest mortality rate of any sport in the world per capita to the people who do it. If you crash in Nascar you still have a roll bar, and a cage, and a lot of protection. It's built to crash, but if you fall off a racehorse we all know what can happen, so it's tremendously dangerous.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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You can't escape from yourself, can you?
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My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.
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Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
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My pollertics, like my religion, being of an exceedin' accommodatin' character.
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From the start, the promise of Jurgen Klinsmann as manager of the U.S. men's national team was revolution: gritty, plodding American soccer would give way to attacking flair; the parade of journeymen would end; an era of skilled stylists would begin.
