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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For diabetes in particular, we know there's a relationship between lack of glucose regulation and complications like blindness and kidney failure. So if you were diabetic and you knew that you could get your glucose in a tight, normal range just by adjusting your lifestyle, wouldn't that be great?
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It's so hard for me to kind of fall in love with comedy, but if something comes my way... I mean, I loved 'Weird,' I thought that was a really fun character.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.
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I will reach out to all states uniformly... I can assure you I will take two steps for every step they extend.
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I was a really bad taxi driver. I only collided twice but it was one time too much.
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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.
