Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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• I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
  • Work
  • Together
  • Dark

• I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Up
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  • Country

• There are different reasons to make movies.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Different
  • Movies
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• The perfection of art is to conceal art.

  

  Quintilian
  • Art
  • Perfection
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• The Department of Justice will continue to pursue those that travel to fight against the United States and our allies, as well as those individuals that recruit others on behalf of ISIL in the homeland.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Justice
  • Travel
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• Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Man
  • Me
  • Him

• I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.

  

  Sam Walton
  • People
  • Leadership
  • Name

• Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Broken
  • Stand
  • Would

• Bill Clinton left office with a more than 60% approval rating.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • More
  • Office
  • Approval

• A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Trying
  • Food
  • Famous

• I've made up my mind. I'll take my court martial.

  

  Eddie Slovik
  • Up
  • Mind
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• I think a lot of a man's outlook in life - at least mine - is shaped by his relationship with his father.

  

  Saif Ali Khan
  • Life
  • Father
  • Relationship

• When Nandita expressed a desire to write about me, I couldn't stop her because she's my wife, but she has forgotten who she is.

  

  Om Puri
  • Me
  • Desire
  • Wife

• But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Me
  • Young
  • Influence

• I travel the world visiting global health programs as an ambassador for the global health organization, PSI, and sometimes the disconnect I see is truly striking: people can get cold Coca Cola, but far too infrequently malaria drugs; most own mobile phones, but don't have equal access to pre-natal care.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • People
  • World
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• People always make war when they say they love peace.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • People
  • Love
  • War

• For myself the past is the source (for all art is vitally contemporary).

  

  Cy Twombly
  • Art
  • Past

• We see and hear about Israelis and Palestinians only when they are defined by the global media as 'occupiers,' 'terrorists,' and 'victims.' But we forget that they are fathers and mothers and sons and daughters and neighbors and doctors and shop-owners and farmers and students.

  

  Jason Alexander

• What I have found is that real friends stand by you.

  

  Jeffrey Archer
  • Real
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• I do not have a family, per se. When I was younger, I grew up in foster care with my brother and sister. It was really a struggle, and knowing that there were people out there with tight-knit families really made my childhood an unfortunate one.

  

  Victor Ortiz
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Men

• How do I define who Usher is? I'm still doing it - every day, every new opportunity, every stage, every interview, every other thing that I've done, every time that I've invested in anything that is all the definition of who I am.

  

  Usher
  • Time
  • Done
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• The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs.

  

  Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Spanish