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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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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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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Zef is the underbelly of the Afrikaans culture, but it also, like, is Afrikaans culture.
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I love candy!
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Christian minds have been conformed to the modern spirit: the spirit, that is, that spawns great thoughts of man and leaves room for only small thoughts of God.
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God can take anything we have, as long as we give Him the glory for it. He can develop it and make it acceptable in music for the people.
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What I like about this team is that they're playing up. They're not playing scared, like they're waiting for the other shoe to drop. When they were 15-1 (last season), I got the feeling that they were waiting for it to end. They didn't know how long they could maintain it.
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All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.
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It is no good hearing an inner voice or getting an inner prompting if you do not immediately act on that inner prompting.
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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.
