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 always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
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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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People who do not recognize their Owner and discover their Master are miserable and bewildered. But those who do, and then take refuge in His Mercy and rely on His Power, see this desolate world transformed into a place of rest and felicity, a place of exchange for the Hereafter.
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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'm a workaholic.
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'The Wine of Summer' is a beautiful film about love lost and found, and the complexities of life while discovering who you are. It was filmed primarily in and around Barcelona, and the imagery is breathtaking.
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They act as they please: here and there, they use force against sovereign states, building coalitions based on the principle 'If you are not with us, you are against us.' To make this aggression look legitimate, they force the necessary resolutions from international organizations, and if for some reason this does not work, they simply ignore the UN Security Council and the UN overall.
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I really have this desire to make it known that the Internet exists and YouTubers are important. And not only are YouTubers important, our followings are incredible.
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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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.
