Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
It's not worth getting too excited about thinking about the larger picture. The larger picture doesn't come into focus for an awfully long time.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.
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The Hungarian people voted for NATO membership. We are active in the joint actions of NATO.
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Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls.
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Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, 'It can't be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it.' That's kind of stuck with me.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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I got lost one time for a couple hours. It was pretty bad. I got lost in a creek, and I couldn't find my way back. The cops even had to come.
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Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
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Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.
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I'm rap's vigilante. I'm out for justice.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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Government is to point you in the right direction, and not to do everything for you.
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I am completely obsessed with numbers and data. I have become a scientist in later life.
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Time is really for those who really need it. I mean, I deal with it. A lot of people are slaves to the second, minute hand. I can't do that!
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Quality is abundant. Time is the new scarcity.
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It's not worth getting too excited about thinking about the larger picture. The larger picture doesn't come into focus for an awfully long time.
