Joshua Foer Quotes
We've outsourced our memories to digital devices, and the result is that we no longer trust our memories. We see every small forgotten thing as evidence that they're failing us.Joshua Foer
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Politics is the art of achieving political goals - of achieving what is possible in a given situation - that is, in a situation that has its conditions and its limits.
Adam Michnik -
When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
When you are in a small rural place with cold weather and a lot of granite, you need people who are going to work hard, and you really stop worrying about what gender they are.
Maggie Hassan -
The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
Laura Ingalls Wilder -
The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
Gary Johnson -
I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
Oscar Nunez
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Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely by white writers - the better to preserve the stereotypes, I imagine.
Langston Hughes -
So many people have asked me about getting their own LEGO Oscar that I submitted it to LEGO Ideas so that everyone has the ability to get one.
Nathan Sawaya -
America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
Barack Obama -
It is now clear that major irregularities did not occur.
Baron Hill -
I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.
Imelda Marcos -
The larger the deductible you choose, the less insurance you are buying. Insurers want to sell insurance.
Andrew Tobias
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When I was playing bluegrass, I was living down in West Hollywood - starving.
Chris Hillman The Byrds -
I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.
Neil Innes -
High heels empower women in a way.
Christian Louboutin -
Taylor Swift's audience can listen to me, but so can the street kids. I want to touch it all.
The Weeknd -
The first video I ever watched was on a Beta system because everyone thought Beta was the way but then it ended up being video so we backed the wrong horse.
Joel Edgerton -
In the morning, I look at my calendar and think about whether things that aren't critical can be moved to the next week.
Belinda Johnson
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I think we have become oversaturated with tired fictional narratives.
Lucy Walker -
The fact that I still find so much beauty in a handicraft is because my mother taught us to see not just the craft as a product but the craft as an embodiment of human creativity and human labor.
Vandana Shiva -
Power is the near neighbour of necessity.
Pythagoras -
Proof' is going to be, in many ways, a mystery. It's not a procedural in any way. It's not a medical drama. It really is about trying to investigate whether or not there's life after death.
Joe Morton -
One of my first memories is running up and down the theatre at Wakefield Opera House.
Katherine Kelly -
We've outsourced our memories to digital devices, and the result is that we no longer trust our memories. We see every small forgotten thing as evidence that they're failing us.
Joshua Foer