Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening.
Quotes to Explore
-
Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
-
I was thinking about the women of Pakistan, those who are not allowed to get education, those who are not allowed to do whatever they want to do in their life. I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
-
This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
-
You can't control where your heart goes.
-
I think America has a brilliant future.
-
The issue with Syria, I think for many of us, has always been about Iran. This is an anchor point for them in terms of regional domination. It means a lot to them. They are all in here.
-
My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
-
I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
-
Team members have to hold each other accountable. If there's a meeting, all members have to commit to be present and to help one another; they can't just check out when they feel they're not getting any benefits.
-
When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
-
I've never, ever done a piece of work - and can't imagine doing a piece of work - when I've thought, 'I was pretty perfect in that.'
-
Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night's sleep?
-
My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
-
I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.
-
It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
-
Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!
-
I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
-
I made nothing happen very slowly.
-
Happiness lies outside yourself, is achieved through interacting with others. Self-forgetfulness should be one's goal, not self-absorption. The male, capable of only the latter, makes a virtue of an irremediable fault and sets up self-absorption, not only as a good but as a Philosophical Good.
-
I want people to see my color and my culture written all over me, because I am proud of the skin I'm in. It is an important part of my identity. What I don't want them to do is mistreat me because of it.
-
My brother knows more about film sets than I do, because he works at New York Film Academy.
-
People think when you get a record deal all your problems will go away. We know that the bigger we get, the more problems we'll have. I guess Puff Daddy was somewhat - what's the word? - prophetic in that respect.
-
Properly understood, then, the desire to act justly derives in part from the desire to express most fully what we are or can be, namely free and equal rational beings with the liberty to choose.
-
The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening.
