Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Hardly any of my most memorable meals have been eaten in a restaurant, and definitely none in one of those fancy marble-floored, polished-silver establishments.
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We have a problem. 'Congratulations.' But it's a tough problem. 'Then double congratulations.'
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But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
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I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.
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I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.
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Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.
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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
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Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
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I love mixing amateurs and professionals.
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Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
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When I joined Time Inc., one of the things that was important to me was ensuring that our content is where consumers want to read it. The Apple newsstand is an important place where a lot of consumers are. And Apple is really becoming a good partner to publishers. We are confident we can deliver a experience for our readers that 's really good.
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I spent a lot of time taking acting lessons... Actors have no inhibitions, and I'm inhibited by everything. To be able to make fun of yourself is a skill and a liberating experience.
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I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.
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There's work for everybody, and I believe every actor gets what he/she deserves. Honestly, I just want to work as long as I can and do great films and act with every good actor around.
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Having egregious divorces - where you just hate each other - is really the easy way out.
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A boardroom is a collection of individuals, and individuals have varying motives, egos, agendas and qualifications. Sometimes the dynamics can go off track.
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I still have the desire to succeed, and I've always felt success is measured by what you've done in the win column, not top 10s.
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We arrive with our...'baggage' and for a while they're brilliant, they're 'Baggage Handlers.' We say, 'Where's your baggage?' They deny all knowledge of it...'They're in love'...they have none. Then...just as you're relaxing...a Great Big Juggernaut arrives...with their baggage. It Got Held Up. One of the greatest myths men have about women is that we overpack.
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Toward the end of the Cold War, capitalism created a military horror: the neutron bomb, a weapon that destroys life while leaving buildings intact. During the Fourth World War, however, a new wonder has been discovered: the financial bomb. Unlike those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this new bomb not only destroys the polis (here, the nation), imposing death, terror, and misery on those who live there, but also transforms its target into just another piece in the puzzle of economic globalization.
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How have people come to be taken in by
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My being gay is not a social issue; it's a fact. It's not something to be debated. It's a reality.
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I've never particularly liked bankers.
