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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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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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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If I suddenly disappear from the music world, you might see Hikaru Utada working as a helper at some inn in Atami.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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Ground troops... have to be a last resort. I think they should always be a last resort.
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I have always felt very fortunate to be have good people. You know, talent will carry you for so far but the values of the people around that should make the difference.
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'Fright Night' I can just about deal with. Because the original is such a 1980s extravaganza. Which is a good thing. Obviously. But something like 'The Others' or anything psychological: I'm no good with that. I don't like it when there's space for me to use my imagination.
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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.
