Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time.

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• Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic, human sanity. In the West, if you speak to yourself out loud all day long, you are considered crazy. But speaking to yourself silently - thinking incessantly - is considered perfectly normal.

  

  Sam Harris
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• I don't have time to be negative.

  

  Venus Williams
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• I retire every time I'm done with a movie. Then I go back. You know, I enjoy sleep. But I love to work; it's fun for me. As long as it continues to be fun, and I'm tolerated by the people around me, I will do it.

  

  Harrison Ford
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• If you can be a good example to other people, why not try to be that person? I have a bit of a people pleaser in me, but not so much so that it's out of control.

  

  Laura Osnes
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• My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.

  

  Balthazar Getty
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• So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
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• The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone - which I don't understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful.

  

  Danica Patrick
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• The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time – but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
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• I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.

  

  Jack Nicholson
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• I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my friends are musicians; I hear music all the time. But I don't have my own collection of music.

  

  Natalia Kills
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• I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.

  

  Verne Troyer
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• I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's recipe for chicken and barley stew all the time.

  

  Gail Simmons
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• The beauty of our country is that when it was founded that they took some time to lay out civil liberties in the first 10 Amendments - the Bill of Rights. I'm a firm believer in those civil liberties and the ability to have your own opinion.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
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• I love to draw and paint. I'm very active in that way, but I'm not very good with the written word, though.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
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• I love Washington, D.C.; I love this country, but I think over the last hundred years we've built up would I call an arrogant empire: people who think the rest of us are too stupid to make our own decisions.

  

  Lamar Alexander
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• In New York, I get people coming up to me because 'The History Boys' was such a hit on Broadway, and they show the film all the time on cable over there, so people recognise you.

  

  Samuel Barnett
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• I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

  

  Malcolm X
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• My all-time low is 62 at Bel-Air, but it was in match play, and I had two putts given to me from four feet. I'm playing only about once or twice a month. Full-time job. Full-time father. Full-time blonde.

  

  Jack Wagner
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• You've got to honor your relationship with your audience - that they sit down because they want to be entertained. And that doesn't mean you can't provoke them and antagonize them and challenge them in the course of the entertainment as long as you keep the entertainment part of the equation alive.

  

  David E. Kelley
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• Going to the golf course every day for work? That's a good job.

  

  Dennis Quaid
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• Hot dogs and Red Vines and potato chips and French fries are my favorite foods.

  

  Betty White
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• When I first heard my song 'Georgia Peaches' on the radio, I opened up the car windows and started screaming to the other people on the road, 'My song's on the radio!' Of course, I wasn't driving.

  

  Lauren Alaina
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• The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in a neighborhood that was on the verge of becoming a ghetto. I had just been fired from a good job as a cartographer in a design studio where I had worked for about four months.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
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• For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time.

  

  Jonathan Safran Foer
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