Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness.

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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in Pakistan, together.
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There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.
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A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?
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If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.
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When I sing, people shut up.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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I feel a responsibility to the fans who have paid to see me and I want to give as good a show as I possibly can.
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We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer.
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I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.
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Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.
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Every day, my love for Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, increases.
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You know, food is such - it's a hug for people.
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We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or get angry. But for the most part, we find it difficult to read each other most of the time. If you walk through the street, most people are pretty difficult to read. But they're thinking inside.
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Underground people pay a desperate toll finding out things nobody else has discovered yet. We run around like headless chickens looking for the next cultural fix to spiral around in before it gets appropriated somewhere else and becomes something it never was. There's this sort of one-upmanship in the underground.
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I mean, it's a bit of a double-edged sword being a celebrity and being an actor as I'm sure you know. Your public laundry is constantly aired out and I thought that maybe I could do some good.
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Any quality player can adjust well to the different demands. It is like a good tennis player who is expected to adjust to the clay at the French Open, the grass at Wimbledon, the hard courts of the U.S. and the heat of the Australian Open. A professional is expected to do all that.
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Облетев Землю в корабле-спутнике, я увидел, как прекрасна наша планета. Люди, будем хранить и преумножать эту красоту, а не разрушать её!
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You ask people, 'should we go back to square one?' People don't want to do that.
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I never liked the glossiness of highly produced standup specials in general - I like it where it has more of a feel of the type of places I usually perform. It seems kind of weird when you do a special to go perform in a place unlike the place where you perform 95% of the time.
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If I'm on the board of any company where there's an offer that comes in, I want to negotiate.
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Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness.