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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As Joel said, there's a bit more licence to attack over here, whereas the NRL is a bit more grinding-type football.
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The left-brainer and the economist in me says watch what people do, not what they say.
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What happens so often as an actor is that you retain the information about the scenes that you yourself shot and you obsess over certain scenes that you found the most challenging or interesting. The rest of the film kind of falls away in your memory or it fades a little bit.
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When you are young, nothing is more important than football, but as you get older, you get married, have kids and lose people. Then you realise your family is more important. This comes with age.
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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.
