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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Pay attention to how we move things
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There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that's huge.
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Quite often a man goes on for years imagining that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time there is not a trace of it left in him.
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There are people who do everything for a calculative political motive. My only motive is a human motive.
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In a world lit by data, street corners are painted with contextual information, automobiles can navigate autonomously, thermostats respond to patterns of activity, and retail outlets change as rapidly (and individually) as search results from Google.
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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.
