Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
The purpose of the Seder to my mind is to inspire conversations with your family about the human drama and hopefully transmit values to the next generation. I've always felt like this could be better.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
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I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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I don't aim for perfection. But I do want to try and come up with something interesting.
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Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
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Stay focused on the mission.
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I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.
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My hair was so much a part of my personality and all my photo shoots. I hid behind my hair. And then, I just decided I was okay with myself. To have short hair and really show my face is even more revealing than anything. It's a statement - not to everyone else, more to myself. I'm just ready to get out from behind my hair and be myself.
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Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.
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My job as an entertainer is to give a great show.
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If I'm in the gym I'll stay for a while, and I'm not usually in a hurry to leave.
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...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.
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The first thing to get clear about Christian morality between man and man is that in this department Christ did not come to teach any brand new morality. The Golden Rule of the New Testament (Do as you would be done by) is a summing up of what everyone, at bottom, had always known to be right.
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Here lies Matthew Mudd, Death did him no hurt; When alive he was only Mudd, But now he's only dirt.
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The purpose of the Seder to my mind is to inspire conversations with your family about the human drama and hopefully transmit values to the next generation. I've always felt like this could be better.
