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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It's tricky to say 'never,' but I will never have plastic surgery.
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I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.
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No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.
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Each training session I'm getting better and better. I have no other duties now, no worries, it's all about training, eating and sleeping. I have a lot more time and can put a lot more effort into training. I'm feeling better every day. As long as I'm feeling myself I'm definitely in no doubt I can go to the Olympics and win.
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Anyone who tells you they don't need to rewrite, they're usually the ones who need it worst.
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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.
