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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One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
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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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Nine days after an attack on the United States, this tiny clique of intellectuals Neocons was telling the President of the United States...that if he did not follow their war plans, he would be charged publicly with a 'decisive surrender' to terrorism.
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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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Everything is complex and everything is simple. The rose has no why attached to it, it blooms because it blooms, how no thought of itself, or desire to be seen. What could be more complicated than a rose for someone who wants to understand it? What could be simpler for someone who wants nothing? The complexity of thinking, the simplicity of beholding.
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Relationships are hard, so you have to know what type of man you want by your side and what their values are, what is important in his life.
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We all know what it's like to want to have that support from our family members and the people that we love, especially our parents.
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One of the things that I tell beginning writers is this: If you describe a landscape, or a cityscape, or a seascape, always be sure to put a human figure somewhere in the scene. Why? Because readers are human beings, mostly interested in human beings. People are humanists. Most of them are humanists, that is.
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Meth is a major problem not only in our urban areas, but in most of the rural areas of Colorado. No region has been immune from this scourge and it is getting larger.
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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.
