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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The devil that stayed with me most vividly was the one from the cover of Iron Maiden's 'Number of the Beast' album.
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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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There is no greater weapon than a prepared mind.
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Do not allow your dreams of a beautiful world to lure you away from the claims of men who suffer here and now. Our fellow men have a claim to our help; no generation must be sacrificed for the sake of future generations, for the sake of an ideal of happiness that may never be realised.
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All political action aims at either preservation or change. When desiring to preserve, we wish to prevent a change for the worse; when desiring to change, we wish to bring about something better. All political action is then guided by some thought of better or worse.
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If you live on an atoll and you get a warning by radio that a big wave is coming and everyone is told to move to higher ground, where are you supposed to go on these islands? There is none. The highest ground is four-meters (around 13 feet) above sea level, meaning you'd be safer in a coconut tree. How, though, are you supposed to get your grandfather, grandmother and grandchildren up there?
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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Experts step outside their comfort zone and study themselves failing.
