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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People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.
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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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CEOs make hard decisions; sometimes, the least worst is the right one.
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Girls' education is a human right. And along with its fundamental justice, it promises so much for the individual, for her family, for society, for all of us.
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I've been going to school, did theater for a long time, been plugging away for 10, 15 years. I was told earlier in my career, it's all laying track... one day, all that track is going to come together in some way, and it has.
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I think ceramics are so amazing because they're incredibly educational - you can buy something made in the 14th century, and it looks like it was made yesterday. There's something to be learned there, and ceramics can tell you the history of the time because they're functional vessels, ultimately.
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There are children who will leave a game to go and be bored in a corner of the garret. How often have I wished for the attic of my boredom when the complications of life made me lose the very germ of freedom!
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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.
