Joshua Foer Quotes
When you want to get good at something, how you spend your time practicing is far more important than the amount of time you spend.
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There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.
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Turkey, a powerful and reliable ally of the U.S. through the Cold War, appears to be coming unmoored from Europe and the West and is becoming increasingly sectarian, autocratic, and nationalistic.
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We've got a yawl named the Phebe, which is named for a boat in a whaling journal my father and I edited. We keep a copy of the journal on board.
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Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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Maybe I'm just a slow learner or something, but I like to have things laid out as plainly and simply as possible.
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It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
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I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
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My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing.
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I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers.
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I wasn't born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.
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I don't even want to touch on the topic of black quarterback, because I think this game is bigger than black, white or even green.
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It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.
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I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.
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I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.
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It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere.
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I just want to keep writing music.
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Low-end disruption occurs when the rate at which products improve exceeds the rate at which customers can adopt the new performance.
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It would be a great adventure for Leicester to be in the Champions League.
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Mentors, by far, are the most important aspects of businesses.
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I kept on hearing the voice of God saying if you are going to be the minister that your mom mentioned... then you have to act. My pulpit is acting.
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When you want to get good at something, how you spend your time practicing is far more important than the amount of time you spend.
