Joshua Foer Quotes
Evolution has programmed our brains to find two things particularly interesting, and therefore memorable: jokes and sex - and especially, it seems, jokes about sex.
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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.
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Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.
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Either you are extrovert or introvert, and so I am an introvert in that sense. I'm not a social person that wants to go to parties.
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Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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It was Britney's movie. I liked that movie. It didn't get too much love, but a lot of people really liked it.
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I love brawling, but I'm a smart fighter.
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Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?
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When I was on 'Dallas,' I was known to audiences of the '80s. And then when my sons, who are in their 30s now, were going to college, 'Dallas' was the cult thing to watch because it was being done on the soap channels, so a whole new generation saw it. And then I have the young fans that knew me from 'Step By Step' in the '90s.
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I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.
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If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln.
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It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs – because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told.
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We want to create content that our fans will like but at the same time stretches us creatively, with our own little touch.
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I have been interested in beauty from an early age. My sister used to put face masks on me and do me up with my mother's makeup!
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I'm a gun owner.
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I think there's a reason to go off and do something and experiment - splinter off and do something different. It keeps the nucleus of Fleetwood Mac fresh.
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I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.
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Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.
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My upbringing was pretty interesting. It was a rigorous, intellectual upbringing, but with the idea that we were a part of an important and legitimate enterprise. What that meant was sitting around the dinner table from a really early age with people from all different backgrounds who believed in God. When I was reporting in the wake of September 11th in Iraq and elsewhere, I felt I had the capacity to talk to people whose beliefs might sound outlandish to more secular journalists. I felt like I could be a translator between those two worlds.
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Evolution has programmed our brains to find two things particularly interesting, and therefore memorable: jokes and sex - and especially, it seems, jokes about sex.
