Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision. But the realities of our present moment compelled us to make that choice.
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I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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I like independent films... European films. I do go and see popular films as well because my kids force me.
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
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Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.
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The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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'The Chosen,' if you recall, was based on the Chaim Potok novel and featured Robbie Benson's persuasive performance as a Hasidic Jew.
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I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human enterprise. I even applied to Officer Candidate School. Then the practical side of me kicked in and I thought, 'I really don't want to get drafted.' So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form.
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My motto in life is, 'If anything is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.'
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As Earth's climate changes, we can expect more destructive hurricanes. As sea level and surface temperatures rise, more solar energy is trapped in the atmosphere, revving up the hydrological cycle of evaporation and precipitation and sometimes manifesting in terrifying storms.
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My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided.
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My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision. But the realities of our present moment compelled us to make that choice.
