A. J. Jacobs Quotes

Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t really explain why.

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• One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Know
  • Never
  • Lies

• Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field - it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Believe
  • Strong
  • Alone

• I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Music
  • Like
  • Dance

• We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Mistake

• The coolest part about 'God Made Girls' is you had all these different women writing it, so you had all these different perspectives in this song.

  

  RaeLynn
  • God
  • Different
  • Writing

• Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Teenager
  • Go
  • Through

• Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Dark
  • Aggressive
  • Aggression

• I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Always
  • Acting
  • Going

• It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • True
  • Struggle
  • Famous

• Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Important
  • Me

• If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Life
  • Die
  • Taken

• Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Never
  • Vision
  • Look

• I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Audience
  • Wonderful
  • Hearts

• If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Time
  • Winning
  • Doing

• That's just a symbol of how you should deal with a breakup. You can cry for a little bit, eat some ice cream, but I think, after that, it's like, get up, listen to some powerful music and do something that makes you happy, be productive.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Up
  • Music
  • Happy

• That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Moments
  • Miracle
  • Youth

• Beauty has so many forms, and I think the most beautiful thing is confidence and loving yourself.

  

  Kiesa Rae Ellestad
  • Beautiful
  • Confidence

• Alzheimer's is a disease for which there is no effective treatment whatsoever. To be clear, there is no pharmaceutical agent, no magic pill that a doctor can prescribe that will have any significant effect on the progressive downhill course of this disease.

  

  David Perlmutter
  • Magic

• The 13-episode model lends itself to a more serialised format, which is nice and gives writers a chance to breathe some space into it.

  

  Eddie Cahill
  • Nice
  • Space
  • Chance

• The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity still among you.

  

  James Larkin
  • Humanity
  • Fate

• I generally get challenged; I haven't been typecast, which is really, really, nice. It's not something that every actor gets, really. It's luxury. Most actors are capable of it, but they aren't afforded the opportunity to express their variety.

  

  James McAvoy
  • Opportunity
  • Nice

• Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t really explain why.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Why
  • Game
  • Nice