Joshua Foer Quotes

One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.

Joshua Foer

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The wild Indian power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, was probably slowly acquired in hard hunting and fighting lessons while trying to approach game, take enemies by surprise, or get safely away when compelled to retreat.

John Muir

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Uh' is not an answer.

Judy Sheindlin

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American music has infiltrated the entire world enough as it is. Mexican music must be defended with vigilance.

Juan Gabriel

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That's the power of television. You come into people's homes every week, and that creates a familiarity and a false sense of intimacy.

Jason Priestley

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Daniel Boulud told me at a young age, 'Whatever happens to you in your career, you're going to be great - be humble. Just be humble.' And I think about that daily. Like, whatever happens to me, whatever awards we win as a team or whatever else, just be humble.

Johnny Iuzzini

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I don't think people will ever forget I was an 'Angel', anymore than they'll forget Sally Field was 'The Flying Nun.'

Cheryl Ladd

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To take the ugly language out of 'Ragtime' is to sanitize it, and that does it a great disservice.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

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If I didn't feel that I was doing something or trying to do something for others, then I would have very little excuse for the life that I lead.

William T. Vollmann

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My favorite movies are movies that I go in and I leave deeply affected. Whether I laugh really hard or whether I cry really hard, I just want to feel really affected in that moment.

Shailene Woodley

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I call myself taking control of a situation, but sometimes you really have to learn to humble yourself and to submit yourself. I'm not really good with submission, so that's the part of marriage and relationships that I've found very hard to deal with.

Tichina Arnold

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Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

Thomas Fuller

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I have been given much, and so I want to give as much as I can.

Noah Munck

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