Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

I need an office, so I can have a place where I don't write.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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• Beginning with the No Child Left Behind law and continuing today with Race to the Top, the federal emphasis on standardized assessments has become so excessive that it has modified state and district behavior in troubling ways.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Today
  • Law
  • Beginning

• People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Time
  • Know

• Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Women
  • School
  • Law

• As people want to move money around the world, they're going to be moving in and out of bitcoin quickly, but they're still going to own it for some period of time... and the size of that working capital requirement will grow as the global economy grows.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • God
  • Earth
  • Me

• As a writer, I was shaped by a desire to write for black people. That things were not being represented. That was my motivating force. That it has become what it has become is shocking to me. I just wanted to be able to take care of my kids.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Kids
  • Desire

• Caregivers attract caregivers and live in a community of love. They are energized by their caring, fulfilled, and they love life. Caretakers attract caretakers and live in the company of resentful victims who see themselves as misused and are fatigued from constant giving with no return.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Life
  • Live
  • Caring

• Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Work
  • Game
  • Me

• Let's not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let's give importance to the real democracy that's constructed on a day-to-day basis. That's my hopeful perspective on it.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Real
  • Democracy
  • Perspective

• Our system, for readily apparent reasons, is far superior to those in nations, mostly totalitarian, which presume an arrested person is guilty and place the burden on the accused to prove his innocence.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Place
  • Guilty
  • Innocence

• Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Men
  • Age
  • Wisdom

• If you've ever been to a poetry slam, you know that the highest scoring emotion is self-righteous indignation: how dare you judge me. So in that way, the poem, 'What Teachers Make,' is an absolutely formulaic slam poem designed to allow me to get up on my soap box and say, 'Let me tell you what really makes me angry.'

  

  Taylor Mali
  • Way
  • Poetry
  • Angry

• I have only one counsel for you - be master.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • You
  • Master
  • Counsel

• As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Great
  • Children
  • Hope

• If I've inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it's really backfired very badly on me.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Me
  • Model
  • Role Model

• Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Church
  • Prayer
  • Teeth

• Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.

  

  Fanny Brice
  • Men
  • Women
  • Fall

• I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Like
  • Animals
  • Pet

• All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.

  

  Chauncey Wright
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Control

• If you are considering earning your living from your Element, it's important to bear in mind that you not only have to love what you do; you should also enjoy the culture and the tribes that go with it.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Culture

• Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

  

  Brian Molko Placebo
  • Life
  • Music
  • Everyday

• A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Women
  • Respect

• The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Benefit
  • Judgement
  • Sill

• I need an office, so I can have a place where I don't write.

  

  Jonathan Safran Foer