Joshua Foer Quotes
Our lives are structured by our memories of events. Event X happened just before the big Paris vacation. I was doing Y in the first summer after I learned to drive. Z happened the weekend after I landed my first job. We remember events by positioning them in time relative to other events.Joshua Foer
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Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.
Laila Robins -
There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
Karen Armstrong -
Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
Malcolm Gladwell -
I can stay up watching TV so late.
Vanessa Bayer -
I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'
Taylor Swift -
I just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing.
Damian Lewis
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Being outside is a loose theme on 'Paracosm.' Acoustic-sounding instruments have that warmth to them that is really important to communicate. It was really important for me to tell a story – my favorite records have a narrative feel.
Washed Out -
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.
Paris Jackson -
I wanted passionately to be a priest.
A. N. Wilson -
The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
We all go back to our roots. My father went to the central west, went to Ilfracombe in 1919. He was the manager of the wool scour there. And, Ilfracombe was right at the heart of Australia's great wool industry, and my mother was a teacher at Winton.
Quentin Bryce
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I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.
F. Murray Abraham -
To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states.
Barbara W. Tuchman -
I think everybody's ideal is to have a wonderful career with one franchise, like Kobe and Tim Duncan.
Blake Griffin -
I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.
Elizabeth Gilbert -
Politicians are fond of criticizing others.
Martin Winterkorn -
The U.S. government is saying that my website enabled piracy when the entire Internet is enabling piracy. Every ISP that connects people to the Internet is enabling piracy - Google is, YouTube is, everybody is.
Kim Dotcom
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I'm from a small town in North Carolina and went to a small college and didn't think that someone like me could make a living in L.A. doing comedy. I worked hard, especially in college, but at that age, you don't know what's next.
Fortune Feimster -
I don't feel I need to come and drive the race of Lewis Hamilton's life. I think I've driven pretty well this year and I plan to drive Lewis Hamilton's best this weekend.
Lewis Hamilton -
Van Gogh.. Fascinating. The fragility of that strong spirit.
Bram van Velde -
Our lives are structured by our memories of events. Event X happened just before the big Paris vacation. I was doing Y in the first summer after I learned to drive. Z happened the weekend after I landed my first job. We remember events by positioning them in time relative to other events.
Joshua Foer