Joshua Foer Quotes
How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by losing ourselves in our Blackberries, our iPhones, by not paying attention to the human being across from us who is talking with us, by being so lazy that we're not willing to process deeply?Joshua Foer
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
Samuel Goldwyn -
My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
Pat Cadigan -
I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
Watkin Tudor Jones -
Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
Ed Miliband -
I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
Larry Holmes -
When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at once, it can seem abstract. I don't need to see great art to get stirred up. Music does that for me more easily.
Caio Fonseca
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
Adam Mansbach -
I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
Abel Korzeniowski -
I was shocked when I heard that Farghadani had been sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison on spurious charges, as Amnesty International notes, of 'spreading propaganda against the system,' 'insulting members of the parliament through paintings' and 'insulting the Supreme Leader' with her cartoon.
Nazanin Boniadi -
A woman should have the right to carry a gun.
Vicky Hartzler -
I'm not really worried about what Anthony Johnson does. I have to worry about what I do to prepare myself.
Daniel Cormier -
I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips.
Gabby Douglas
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I have a special interest in children who have lost a parent or loved one in the line of duty as they served their country as a police officer, firefighter, federal agent or member of the military, but children all over the word need help and an opportunity to flourish.
Larry Wilcox -
I came from a dirt farm, now I'm filthy rich.
Larry Holmes -
Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
Octavio Paz -
I enjoy having some boundaries to work within. That's why I generally don't like alternate tunings and stuff like that. I like the boundaries of regular tunings.
J Mascis -
I always write these movies that are far too big for any paying customer to sit down and watch from beginning to end, and so I always have this big novel that I have to adapt into a movie as I go.
Quentin Tarantino -
Pair up in threes.
Yogi Berra
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If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.
Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -
maybe the lonely places are the only things that make human beings of us all.
Babs H. Deal -
But the bottom line is that, as humans, we are by nature selfish creatures. The only way we care about anything, really, is by making it about us.
Sarah Dessen -
How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by losing ourselves in our Blackberries, our iPhones, by not paying attention to the human being across from us who is talking with us, by being so lazy that we're not willing to process deeply?
Joshua Foer