Franklin Foer Quotes

An article in the 'Moscow Times' described Trump as the city's first grand builder since Stalin.

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• The way we do music in Brazil is very different because we are so moved by music; we grow up with that.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Music
  • Different

• Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Know
  • Personality
  • Survival

• I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • College
  • Myself
  • Confidence

• Creating things sometimes is difficult.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Sometimes
  • Things
  • Difficult

• A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Money
  • Food
  • Fly

• All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Opportunity

• A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • People
  • Reading
  • Kitchen

• I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • More
  • U.S.
  • Stones

• Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Never
  • Become

• I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.

  

  Gabrielle Anwar
  • Mother
  • Friend
  • Happiness

• I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Life
  • Stage
  • Performer

• We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Real
  • Job
  • Society

• Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • World
  • May
  • Fear

• I know what poverty is.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Know
  • Poverty

• A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.

  

  Irvin S. Cobb
  • Evidence
  • Defense
  • Funeral

• When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Different
  • American
  • America

• Our relationships are precious, valuable treasures from heaven, and we should handle them carefully, always looking for ways to build bridges to each other's hearts.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Heaven
  • Relationships
  • Bridges

• I did one of those 'born again' things and invited Jesus to become the chairman of the board, of my life.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Life
  • Jesus
  • My Life

• Being worshipped is a horrible experience.

  

  John Fahey
  • Experience

• He was as great as a man can be without morality.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Great

• I love working at NASA, but the part that has been the most satisfying on a day-to-day basis, hour-to-hour, minute-to-minute, has been working on board the space station. Even if I'm just cleaning the vents in the fans, it all is important.

  

  Peggy Whitson
  • Important
  • Space
  • Cleaning

• If anyone gets arrogant about their religion, that's when the religion isn't effective anymore. Any decent religion or any decent philosophy is always about tolerance and individual freedom, not about harm.

  

  Liam Cunningham
  • Freedom
  • Tolerance

• Would you like the oldest, most historically significant athletic competition the world has ever known, attracting athletes from every known nation on the face of the planet to come here and perform at the peak of their abilities, in the very city where you live? Most British people go, 'Where will we park?!'

  

  Marcus Brigstocke
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• An article in the 'Moscow Times' described Trump as the city's first grand builder since Stalin.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • City
  • Trump