Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
It's hard to draw clear lines between writing and life and I don't think it is necessary to or necessarily good to.Jonathan Safran Foer
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
Garth Nix -
When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
Gabrielle Zevin -
Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.
Ralph Boston -
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
Rabindranath Tagore -
Twerking has to end. Not for the ones that look good doing it, but for all the ones that you feel, 'You don't have enough to twerk back there. Your twerkin' look like jerkin.'
Ice Cube
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When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.
Dalai Lama -
Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr. -
We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.
Ha-Joon Chang -
'Big Bang' is unbelievable; I'm blessed, but it's not the only thing in my life.
Kaley Cuoco -
People love video games because they do things they obviously can't do in real life. That's especially true with sports games because fans love to step into the shoes of their favorite athletes.
Ralph Baer -
Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
Washington Irving
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In some sense, when you take a child soldier out of an armed group, you've taken away the identity he or she has had for years, and you can't assume life is just going to return to normal.
Forest Whitaker -
I have been blessed with roles that allow me to express something very personal at a specific time in my life. I seek them out; acting is my therapy.
Victoria Clark -
Life's too short not to have fun with what you wear.
Ireland Baldwin -
In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
La India -
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
E. L. Doctorow -
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
E. Joseph Cossman
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A God without wrath brought human beings without sin into a kingdom without judgment through ministrations of a Christ without a cross.
H. Richard Niebuhr -
In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'
Lady Gaga -
If I get a song - a good song - I just sing it the way I hear it in my head. If anybody else wanted to add whistles and bells and chains rattling, that's fine. Just not too much. I actually just do things as straight ahead as possible.
Glen Campbell -
I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.
Arnold Palmer -
It's hard to draw clear lines between writing and life and I don't think it is necessary to or necessarily good to.
Jonathan Safran Foer