Joshua Foer Quotes
Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear.
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Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
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Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.
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I think gymnastics was associated with the 10. I thought that belonged to the sport, and somehow we gave it way.
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Donatella Versace has been a renegade. Just an incredible, artistic person.
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It is my responsibility that I must make demonstrative efforts to reach out to every citizen of the country.
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I was kind of an unhappy kid. I always felt like a cynical New Yorker trapped in a little kid's body. I started to get some pretty bad anxiety disorders around puberty, which totally did not work with growing up a mile away from the beach. I started cutting my own hair.
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Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.
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The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it.
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Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there.
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Throughout the Middle Ages the sway of the Church over the moral and spiritual life of the people, her power to inspire and direct their enthusiasms and energies, her chance for molding their conceptions of life, were amazing and unparalleled by any other force.
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I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out.
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I was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.
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That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, all of it bad!
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Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-the mother.
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We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
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Her one serious failing was that she could not write above love. She could not write a story with more than one important character in it, whom she thought of for the moment as herself; with love there had to be at least two important characters.
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When you make movies, you have to be preoccupied with the social problems, otherwise there is no point in making a movie. To have a story, you need a social problem. Not necessarily a problem, but something to get the idea for a story, otherwise there's no story.
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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
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For me, it's mostly about having stuff on the street. You're walking down the street, you do it every day, and suddenly there's something that wasn't there yesterday: something bright and cheerful and different. It might stay there for a year; maybe it will disappear.
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Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear.
