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.Jonathan Safran Foer
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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!
Gary Numan -
In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I like independent films... European films. I do go and see popular films as well because my kids force me.
Frances O'Grady -
You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
Warren Zevon -
Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
Carine Roitfeld -
I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
Larry Bird
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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.
Sacha Guitry -
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.
Imran Amed -
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!
R. L. Stine -
The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
Patrick Ewing -
If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
Ted Turner
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I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.
Taylor Dayne -
The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
Manly Hall -
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.
Oliver Joseph Lodge -
As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
Olga Kurylenko -
A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
Young Jeezy -
Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
Larry Wilcox
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I think that, for so much of our matriculation through American society, black people sort of feel like outsiders.
Kenya Barris -
If you have rooms that are very homogeneous, that have all had the same life experiences and educational backgrounds, and they're all relatively wealthy, their perspective on the world is going to mirror what they already know. That can be dangerous when we're making systems that will affect so many diverse populations.
Kate Crawford -
But there is a scary side to acting for me, because I have always wanted to develop rather than plateau out. When people come to me and tell me I was terrific in this or that, I do not want to fall flat on my face the next time. But, tough, I have fallen flat before. You just get up and dust yourself off.
Geoffrey Rush -
The progressive historical role of capitalism may be summed up in two brief propositions: increase in the productive forces of social labour, and the socialisation of that labour. But both these facts manifest themselves in extremely diverse processes in different branches of the national economy.
Vladimir Lenin -
The public schools tend to teach little kids from when they are very young about the whole universe without God and that God cannot be in science. They are indoctrinating children in an atheistic religious view of things.
Ken Ham -
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.
Jonathan Safran Foer