Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is the kind that adds, building with clay, piling it on. The way I write novels is to keep piling on and piling on and piling on.
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now.
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I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'
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In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
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I'm just happy to be doing a job that I love.
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The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
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Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.
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Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
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Can you imagine what will happen to the global economy if Iran comes out with a nuclear weapon? The whole area will enter a nuclear race - Saudi Arabia, Turkey.
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I just try to stay positive and focused on the tennis, not let anything get to me, like crazy questions. But I'm tough, let me tell you, tough as nails.
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I have good stamina and good endurance.
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I'm not the type to sit on the porch and watch life go by.
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Hip hop has been an integral part of my life and my whole career. I started off doing videos with Ice Cube and Dre and Mary J. Blige and TLC.
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Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
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What ravages of spirit conjuredThis temptuous rage;Created you a monster,Broken by the rule of love.
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So many people think that this album is showing a different side of me, but that's not really what it is. I think it's just more me this time because I got to really do it how I wanted to.
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We've come a long way from the days of Jim Crow, and yes, we elected a black president, but racism lives.
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In many cases, water stress is more about politics, economics, behaviour and governance than absolute water scarcity. Better planning is needed, to allocate water where societal need is greatest, and to allow trade-offs between alternative uses.
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We only know ourselves and what we really are when the force of circumstances brings us out.
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Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.
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Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb.
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Inner conflict is really fun to play because there's a lot going on, and the choices - when you've got a character with internal conflict - the choices you make have broader ramifications because they have inner ramifications and ramifications in the world.
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There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is the kind that adds, building with clay, piling it on. The way I write novels is to keep piling on and piling on and piling on.
