Franklin Foer Quotes
Trump and Yanukovych have shared the same political brain: an operative named Paul Manafort.
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The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
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I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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The Oscars are a lot different when you are a nominee. You walk around with this big smile on your face, and everyone, even people who work for rival film companies, tells you they voted for you.
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I can easily connect with the prepubescent dork I spent much of my life being.
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Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight.
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President Obama was never going repeal Obamacare - he was not going to be brought to his knees with the threat of a government shutdown.
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We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.
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From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
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As far as viewpoints, I think I'm more well-rounded and definitely more educated, and probably more hopeful than I used to be. I think when you're young and you get into a cause, you get frustrated with it within a few years, or six months.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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Russia, their number one client in the Middle East is Syria; that is their foothold in the Middle East. They want to have influence there.
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Air power will not defeat ISIS. It has not been able to deny ISIS freedom of maneuver and the ability to attack at will.
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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.
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Among the chartered responsibilities of the federal government were, in those areas where appropriate - such as facilitating interstate commerce - to provide for justice and domestic tranquility, the common defense, and to secure the blessings of liberty.
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I pray every day for my little girls. It's hard out there for the younger generation.
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For us, since we entered the MCU as storytellers, and we picked up the story with 'Winter Soldier,' we've been carrying a thread forward from that point, a narrative thread.
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One of the ways that I could contribute was to shill some memorabilia, and the other was to talk to you and try to get people to pay attention to this auction.
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I'm entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I'm an American.
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Trump and Yanukovych have shared the same political brain: an operative named Paul Manafort.
