Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
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I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.
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Sorry, no, I'm never satisfied with my drumming.
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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
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Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
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As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is.
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It's always great when you're really needed.
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As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.
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I represent celebrities, but I am not a celebrity.
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I trust bitcoin more than I trust my bank.
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The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.
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I won't hold any illusions of changing the world or any such nonsense. But maybe, just maybe, I'm helping someone else change his or her life a little bit for the better, even if it just means giving someone a magical place in which to hide.
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Charlie Rangel was writing laws on our taxes as chair of the Ways and Means Committee while somehow neglecting to pay his own.
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My job means I work late.
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The first record I spent five years writing and it was an amalgamation of all the things that happened in my life from the time I was fifteen to the time I was twenty.
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I really care about what I put out, and probably more than the fans care. At times, I think I over-care. But I just know that the body of work has such a high standard that it's kind of like, in my own head, I need to at least match it if not get over that, so that's the challenge.
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Not to cover the subject, but to uncover and isolate a part of it … is the aim of the aphorist
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I have no intention of making small bets.
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Lists are how I parse and manage the world.
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It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns.
