Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
It's a good rule of thumb, it seems to me: if you're not allowed to see where something comes from, don't put it in your mouth.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
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The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
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I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.
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Stay true to your own voice, and don't worry about needing to be liked or what anybody else thinks. Keep your eyes on your own paper.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.
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When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
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I know about the sweet home. I went to school with 'em boys, what became Lynyrd Skynyrd; I knew Allen Collins, the skinny girl-beautiful guitarist. I put Allen Collins in every travel piece I do. Travel writing is harrowing, going to Bermuda with a banjo on my knee.
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Say I lived until 80 and read a book a month seriously, that means I was looking at 480 books left in my life. If I had only 480 left, I wanted to stop sifting through material I didn't have confidence in and turn my attention to those that I know merited my reading.
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I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income.
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I want anything I produce to be good for people kind enough to try it, but it's the momentum and process I enjoy most.
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Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true; but there is the slime.
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I discovered surfing, which I absolutely fell in love with. That feels good and kind of keeps your body aligned, so does the salt water.
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It's a good rule of thumb, it seems to me: if you're not allowed to see where something comes from, don't put it in your mouth.
