Joshua Foer Quotes
When we first hear a word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date.
Quotes to Explore
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William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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I'm quite claustrophobic, and I don't like everyone crowding around and shouting the same questions.
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I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason.
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I'm a guy who had to perform some way. I had to perform in some way. If not as an actor, I'd perform as an artist. It would have been something that would be outstanding in its own way.
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I wouldn't mind doing more in the kid's world because I think that might be just where I can be most useful to society, to the planet, if I can speak to children.
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I learned from my father that music is from God and the message is from God.
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The cause of Freedom and the cause of Peace are bound together.
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I am here convicted and wrongfully sentenced.
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A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.
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Children teach you so much. You take another look at life when you have a child. Everything is new again for you. They ground you.
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a man can be given only what he can use; and he can use only that for which he has sacrificed something
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Mathematicians come to the solution of a problem by the simple arrangement of the data, and reducing the reasoning to such simple operations, to judgments so brief, that they never lose sight of the evidence that serves as their guide.
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I just think it's sad that the main places in our culture that we designate to meet new people are bars and nightclubs.
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This is one of the ways fiction is more liberating than nonfiction - I don't have to be so concerned with fact. I had the paradigm of certain people in my head who became my characters, but I never considered these people to be from a "certain sector of society," unless we agree that we're all from certain sectors of society.
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I remember when I signed with Kedar Entertainment through Universal Records. It was my first record deal and it's the one I still have now. At that time, there had been a couple of opportunities I was almost given, but at the last minute the giver came back and told me it couldn't happen.
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I used to just scribble things on a piece of paper whenever an idea would - came to mind. Now with cell phones. It definitely has gotten a lot easier because I can just take it out and just - I'll just sing into my phone.
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I like getting feedback from people who show a lot of potential, and it's exciting to witness to new talents developing and bourgeoning. I always try to stay around the newest stuff, I don't like to stay with something that's kind of old or approaching it.
