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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When I was three, I didn't play with other kids very much; I was kind of isolated. I got used to be being bullied and having to think my way out of situations in the same way that other kids would fight their way out. Then I discovered a piano, and it became my playmate.
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Being young isn't about age, it's about being a free spirit. You can meet someone of 20 who's boring and old, or you can meet someone of 70 who's youthful and exciting. I met Fred Astaire when he was 72 and I was 21, and I fell in love with him. He certainly was a free spirit.
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Who are we to wish for Paradise? It will be enough if Allah spares us his wrath.
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Some of my favorite media is the still cartoon that you can sit and study. You can get amazing metaphors across really quickly. I'm in awe of a Charles Schulz.
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Experts step outside their comfort zone and study themselves failing.
