Joshua Foer Quotes
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I love Mike Tyson. I was a fan, as everybody else was. The moment somebody stood up to him, he didn't do so well. And that's the same thing with Anthony Johnson. The guy's a bully. He wants to intimidate you; he wants to dominate you. He wants to knock you out. But what happens when you don't knock somebody out? What happens?
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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I'm just trying to have fun, and maybe the way I hold myself kind of freaks people out. I don't feel like an outsider, and I think my friends feel the same way I do. Now that we're playing to larger audiences, maybe we're weird to some people. But I'm trying to express what I am.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
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I'm a girl: that means I fight like a girl. And there ain't nothing meaner.
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You know, I love America. It's such a positive country.
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I exist as I am, that is enough.
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You got to start by doing little things if your quest is to take over the world.
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It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.
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I think the kids today need to hear more about morals and values.
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The Bush tax cuts, they ought to be made permanent in my mind so there is certainty out there.
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Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
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My 2005 calendar we actually did a shoot in Lake Las Vegas. Since I had requests do some swimwear and athletic shots we tried them and they came out good so we inserted them into the new calendar.
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Frankly, I think there is something wrong with Jawlensky's dots in his paintings, then. Anybody can pick up that style if they want to.
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My father was a no-nonsense, dedicated, and focused minister, and there was usually a sermon he needed to prepare for or a Scripture he needed to study, and that always came first.
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How could anybody think of Bach as 'cold' when these [cello] suites seem to shine with the most glittering kind of poetry," Casals said. "As I got on with the study I discovered a new world of space and beauty... the feelings I experienced were among the purest and most intense in my artistic life!
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It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed in the late 60s when black studies started. You'd get one here and one there and one here, like Johnny Appleseed.
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Experts step outside their comfort zone and study themselves failing.
