Joshua Foer Quotes
To the extent that experience is the sum of our memories and wisdom the sum of experience, having a better memory would mean knowing not only more about the world, but also more about myself.
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
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My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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I moved on from dice baseball to 'MLB: The Show' on PlayStation.
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To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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One of my early childhood memories was my grandmother always having a bowl of Nestle chocolate bars at her house. My sister and I would argue over who could eat the chocolate bars. Looking back, I don't know why we just didn't share. We could have split them.
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I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.
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God has just given me such an amazing journey and able to play; it's been so much fun. I'm having a blast!
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There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
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The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.
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I've always basically done everything that's been offered to me. I'm one of the few actors who enjoy working a lot.
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The longer I spent time on 'The Daily Show,' standing in front of a green screen pretending to report from war zones and hot spots around the world - most often from somewhere in the Middle East - the more I began to realize that 'The Daily Show' was radicalizing me.
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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
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When he come up in the club he be blazin up Got stacks on deck like he savin up
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Networking is never easier than when people are coming to you.
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The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.
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To the extent that experience is the sum of our memories and wisdom the sum of experience, having a better memory would mean knowing not only more about the world, but also more about myself.
