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 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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He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability.
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Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
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As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.
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I moved from New Zealand to Melbourne when I was 17. I'd planned to go to university to study French, but I was offered a contract to write and record an album that was too good to pass up. Looking back now I think that was pretty young but, at the time, I was ready to have an adventure.
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Experts step outside their comfort zone and study themselves failing.
