Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.
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I grew up playing video games. And the cool thing about the EA Sports games is they took me through the whole motion-capture thing, where they put little sensors on my body so the video game really is me. It actually moves the way I move.
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I wrote my first play when I was eight.
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Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.
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We were intrigued by the fact that we had so much actual behavior among people on our dating site, OKCupid.
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I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made their own inscriptions.
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I have to remind myself constantly to not be antisocial, because I stay to myself a lot. I'm a lot more introspective than my characters.
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I never thought we'd ever have a black president. President Obama has done such a tremendous job... He just has been unable to get what he needs to be moved at the level it should be moved.
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I dress according to what suits me and what I am comfortable in.
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Right now I'm reading every fashion magazine I can find. As a shoe designer, I feel it's my responsibility to learn as much as I can about the business, past and present.
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You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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I can't imagine what it would be like to write in a relaxed state. I'm going to be writing some stories for my own interest. I want to experiment with different things and see if I can approach writing with much less control and in a better psychological state. It will be like breaking out of a straitjacket.
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Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.
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Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
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If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination.
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The European way is also the United Nations' way. And we believe in the U.N. because we believe in the same principles, in the same values, and our communities are built upon the same fundamental ideals.
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'We are going so slow,' Noah said, craning his neck to observe the inevitable queue behind them. 'I think I just saw a tricycle pass us.''Rude.'
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There is no such thing as gratitude in international politics.
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I don't want to pick a team. I want to make people laugh and hopefully bring some - be humorous about the human experience, you know, whether they're people of any stripes of life.
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I doubt if there is any occupation which is more consistently and unfairly demeaned, degraded, denounced, and deplored than banking.
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I think for me one of the big things was realizing that being Boy George is my job. It's what I do.
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History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.
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It might help if you imagine an inner living dimension within yourself in which you create, in miniature psychic form, all the exterior conditions that you know. Simply put, you do exactly this. Your thoughts, feelings and mental pictures can be called incipient exterior events, for in one way or another each of these is materialized into physical reality.
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Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud.
