Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
People don't care enough. They don't get worked up enough. They don't get angry enough. They don't get passionate enough. I'd rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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For me, family has always come first.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
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I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.
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Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.
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Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.
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The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
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If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.
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Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.
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You don't kill your way to peace.
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Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.
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Remember that when criticism is difficult to accept, there is probably some truth to it.
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What I've learnt being an actor is that you've got to be lucky. I got less lucky, and nobody was interested. If a part came up, it would be for the main corpse's friend's brother who was having problems with his marriage.
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Developing a new designer colouring book with Laurence King has been a real passion project of mine.
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And I feel like, as a black man within black culture, I know very well firsthand - as do my parents and my grandparents and great-grandparents - we're used to things not going our way.
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People don't care enough. They don't get worked up enough. They don't get angry enough. They don't get passionate enough. I'd rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
