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.Jonathan Safran Foer
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
Garry Shandling -
It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
Vin Diesel -
The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
Larry Wilmore -
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.
Famke Janssen -
Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
Paloma Faith -
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.
Warren Rudman
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
Kapil Dev -
Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
Xenophon -
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?
D. A. Pennebaker -
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.
Idris Elba -
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
Hannah Arendt -
I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.
Quentin Tarantino
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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.
Laura Dern -
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.
Walter Gropius -
When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
Parvesh Cheena -
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.
Padgett Powell -
Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them.
Gay Talese -
I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.
Victoria Principal
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To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
As with most people, my ideology and my attitudes about life were informed by parents and family.
David Harsanyi -
You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little disappointed when I know too well where I'm going, or when I've lived in a place so long that there's no chance I could possibly get lost.
Andrew Bird -
Vermont is a small state which makes an enormous difference.
Fred Rogers -
The corporate facilities that we have here are as good as anywhere in Australia and the motorcycle people are certainly going to enjoy those.
Malcolm Campbell -
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.
Jonathan Safran Foer