Joshua Foer Quotes
To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to memorize 1,000 digits in under an hour, the precise order of 10 shuffled decks of playing cards in the same amount of time, and one shuffled deck in less than two minutes. There are 36 grand masters of memory in the world.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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We who curate our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls understand that at least part of what we're doing publicly, 'like'-ing what we like, is trying to separate ourselves from the herd.
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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When I say things that sound insane, like only the smartest million people should have the right to vote, well, I mean that.
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I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
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The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.
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The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.
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I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.
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I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse.
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I get up at sunrise. I'm a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then it's list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. It's not back-breaking, but it's certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous.
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I'm like a crockpot on low heat. My mind constantly comes up with ideas, but I abandon a lot of them after a week or two. It's the ones that keep coming to me, that keep picking up flavors, that haunt me, those are the ones that wind up getting written.
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In one era the majority puts its faith and sympathy with the bullfighter, in another with the bull.
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You really don't settle on an idea until you're really sure it's the best idea. Then once you settle on it you commit to it entirely. That was always the plan.
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Amartya Sen is best known to the general reader for his powerful essays on famine. He is an optimist about some of our gravest economic problems, such as mass starvation in a world that at present can easily produce more food than everyone can eat. Reason and voluntary participation are his watchwords.
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To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to memorize 1,000 digits in under an hour, the precise order of 10 shuffled decks of playing cards in the same amount of time, and one shuffled deck in less than two minutes. There are 36 grand masters of memory in the world.
