Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
These little daily choices that we're so used to thinking are irrelevant are the most important thing we do all day long.
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
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I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
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For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
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The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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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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I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.
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The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
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I like to laugh and make people have fun.
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Those who live are those who fight.
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One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members.
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Something I learned when I was very young: with cooking, it doesn't matter where you are; you can always cook. You can end up in small village in Peru where somebody's cooking, take a spoon and taste it, and you might not be too sure what you're eating, but you can taste the soul in the food. That's what is beautiful with food.
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If you're a young actor, unless you're on a very short list at the studios, we have to be very creative about moving your career along. Otherwise, all we can do is hope to get lucky and find that perfect role that pops you into stardom.
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People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking.
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Okay," I said, "what's your biggest fear?" As always, he took a second to think about the answer. "Clowns," he said. "Clowns." "Yup." I just looked at him. "What?" he said, glancing over at me. "That is not a real answer," I told him. "Says who?" "Says me. I meant a real fear, like of failure, of death, of regret. Like that. Something that keeps you awake nights, questioning your very existence." He thought for a second. "Clowns.
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I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends.
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I think it accrues to Hawaii's benefit that I have friends in Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin. We're already geographically isolated, so it's really critical that we don't become politically isolated.
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These little daily choices that we're so used to thinking are irrelevant are the most important thing we do all day long.
