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 -
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
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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 -
We went to church twice a week. My parents were employed in ministry; we prayed before dinner. We rollerbladed in the summer. We were allowed to watch the 'Simpsons.' I fought with my younger brother over Legos.
Mallory Ortberg
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We've invented a new marketplace. There was no easy way to rent a person's bedroom over the Internet or book a vacation rental over the Internet. There was no guidebook for us to turn to as we defined this new marketplace.
Joe Gebbia -
I don't have any beauty shop memories. I remember the barber shop.
Jenifer Lewis -
If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
Madeline Zima -
I remember growing up, having sports to go to, having recess, those were the things I looked forward to. Yes, I'm an athlete, but I had buddies who weren't, and they looked forward to it, too.
Ashton Eaton -
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