Joshua Foer Quotes
Life seems to speed up as we get older because life gets less memorable as we get older.
Quotes to Explore
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After I resigned, I could eventually speak for myself, but when it first happened, I was in complete shock, and it took a long time for me to overcome it.
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The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.
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When I started out, the idea of comfort in shoes was almost a dirty word.
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What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.
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All I've done all my life is disobey.
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Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.
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There's a thing in the U.K., particularly in London, where it's kind of the idea of subculture and counterculture and the outside and the idea that it's great to be a freak, and the freak always wins. So I think English girls are a lot less scared of being the freak or looking like an idiot.
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The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.
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I enjoy the challenge of trying to say things beautifully. The message is secondary in that sense. Obviously, I have something that I want to say that's very, very important to me – but the process of actually crafting it is essential.
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An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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Am I not ninja enough? Are you saying that I lack ninja?
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Recognize and embrace your flaws so you can learn from them. Sometimes it takes a little polishing to truly shine.
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For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.
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When I watch a movie, I don't make a sound or move. The more I'm into the movie, the more bored I look.
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I have spied for you and lied for you, put myself in mortal danger for you. Everything was supposed to be to keep Lily Potter’s son safe. Now you tell me you have been raising him like a pig for slaughter —
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We are all slaves to the shining metal.
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Twitter actually may be improving its users’ writing, as it forces them to wring meaning from fewer letters - it embodies William Strunk’s famous dictum, Omit needless words, at the keystroke level.
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When you want full color perception, you must give up preferring some colors and hating others, for you can only hate one aspect of a color, not a whole color, it seems, hate being blind, like 'love.
