A. J. Jacobs Quotes

I'm all for cafeteria religion. I think there's nothing wrong with cafeterias - I've had some great meals at cafeterias. I've also had some horrible meals, so it's important to pick the right things. Take a heaping helping of compassion and mercy, and leave the intolerance on the table.

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• Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.

  

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• But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.

  

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• I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?

  

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• Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.

  

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• To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.

  

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• I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.

  

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• Armenian folklore has it that three apples fell from Heaven: one for the teller of a story, one for the listener, and the third for the one who 'took it to heart.' What a pity Heaven awarded no apple to the one who wrote the story down.

  

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• If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.

  

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• Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.

  

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• I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.

  

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• Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.

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• The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.

  

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• I'm going to do some consulting for nonprofits and arts agencies. These are areas I'm interested in that didn't come directly out of Harvard, but certainly I started looking at things in a different manner.

  

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• I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.

  

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• My dad worked two jobs his whole life, and so I told him he's the reason I have 20 jobs.

  

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• My mother lived till she was 95 and never had a line on her face or a frown line. She was beautiful.

  

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• 'Born this Way' is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud.

  

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• If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.

  

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• It's quite funny. I grew up with my mother: as a designer, she was always working, and I actually used to say to her, 'Whatever you do, never leave me your business.'

  

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• A great writer named Neal Stephenson said that America does four things better than any other country in the world: rock music, movies, software and high-speed pizza delivery. All of these are sacred American art forms. Let's return to our purity and our idealism while we have this shot.

  

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• Bombay is different to Liverpool, or anywhere, really.

  

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• I'm all for cafeteria religion. I think there's nothing wrong with cafeterias - I've had some great meals at cafeterias. I've also had some horrible meals, so it's important to pick the right things. Take a heaping helping of compassion and mercy, and leave the intolerance on the table.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Great
  • Important
  • Compassion