Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
People who care about animals tend to care about people. They don't care about animals to the exclusion of people. Caring is not a finite resource and, even more than that, it's like a muscle: the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.Jonathan Safran Foer
Quotes to Explore
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
Fetty Wap -
I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
Yo-Yo Ma -
There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
Barton Gellman -
Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents.
Madisen Beaty -
We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.
Natalie Cole -
The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.
Walter Gropius
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
Maggie Gyllenhaal -
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
Edmund Phelps -
I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.
Aaron Sorkin -
If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
Manoj Bhargava -
I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.
Vicki Lawrence -
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
E. B. White
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Abraham Lincoln -
When liberty returns, I will return.
Victor Hugo -
An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
Otto von Bismarck -
Just because I do a few comedy bits about gay people, that does not mean I'm out there promoting some anti-gay cause.
Sam Kinison -
It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
Kaskade -
I believe in stopping work and eating lunch.
L'Wren Scott
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Basically, as soon as I saw that there was a role available on '24,' I jumped at it, and then when I sat down and talked to them, it seemed to get more interesting and more fun.
Katee Sackhoff -
There is no one who is more conflicted in the Marvel Universe, in my opinion, than Matthew Murdock. Is he his father's son, or is he the son of his father? Is he someone who is going to solve the world's problems in a court room, or is he someone who is going to solve the world's problems with his fist?
Jeph Loeb -
You don't get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
Bill Parcells -
Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
Alan Arkin -
Through positive thinking and related approaches, we seek the safety and solid ground of certainty, of knowing how the future will turn out, of a time in the future when we'll be ceaselessly happy and never have to fear negative emotions again. But in chasing all that, we close down the very faculties that permit the happiness we crave.
Oliver Burkeman -
People who care about animals tend to care about people. They don't care about animals to the exclusion of people. Caring is not a finite resource and, even more than that, it's like a muscle: the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.
Jonathan Safran Foer