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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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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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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Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
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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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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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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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Doubtless he was going to start bragging about being a god. It went with the profile of this sort of lunatic.
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We must build a trickle-up media that reflects the true character of this country and its people. A democratic media serving a democratic society.
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The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
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Οὔκουν ἔμοιγε χρώμενος διδασκάλῳπρὸς κέντρα κῶλον ἐκτενεῖς.
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As a breed, I think artists are never 100% satisfied with their work, and we will always want that little bit of extra time to put the final gloss on it.
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Around Clifden, I like the place, and the people are great.
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If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not so much the painting that excites me as that the painting unlocks all kinds of valves of sensation within me which return me to life more violently.
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The barbed wire that encircled us like a wall did not fill us with real fear. In fact, we felt this was not a bad thing: we were entirely among ourselves. A small Jewish republic...
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Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.
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Having said that, my absorption in nature, its healing powers, and omnipresence in ourselves and the world that surrounds us is, in itself, a form of ultimate worship.
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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.
