Joshua Foer Quotes

All across Africa, the Pacific and the Americas, we find cultures that didn't know about mouth kissing until their first contact with European explorers. And the attraction was not always immediately apparent. Most considered the act of exchanging saliva revolting.

Joshua Foer

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I haven't got any emotions... feelings aren't logic.

Jimmy Savile

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You don't write on tour; it takes all your concentrating to make the gig - that's survival technique. Afterwards, you run around town to find interesting hipsters and go to all the interesting spots. You got to go to every hotspot until everything has closed down.

Joe Strummer

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With Asian-Americans actors, specifically, there's been fewer opportunities for them in TV and film and fewer that have the ability to actually make a career out of it. It becomes a bit of a chicken and egg situation, where they're like, 'Oh, but they're not famous names,' but they haven't had a chance to be in anything yet, either.

Jenny Han

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My definition of gender expands beyond just two genders.

Andy Dunn

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Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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The trouble with a series as it gets older is it can feel like a tradition, and tradition is the enemy of suspense, and it's the enemy of comedy. It's the enemy of everything, really. So you have to shake it up.

Steven Moffat

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So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals.

Shirley Knight

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P.G. Wodehouse was a huge influence on me when I was younger, as were Edgar Rice Burroughs and George Bernard Shaw.

Michael Moorcock

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The best programmers and internet entrepreneurs are in the Bay Area. Don't kid yourself about that, not even for a second.

Jose Ferreira

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Although I'm very competitive, I'm also very critical of myself.

Devon Cajuste

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I was clear that I wanted to do music and I wanted to write songs. But I wasn't clear about how I was going to make that happen. I wrote loads of songs but didn't want to show them to anyone.

Alison Goldfrapp

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It is absolutely important to make accessible the Gospel for all people and also understandable for Jewish people.

Pope Benedict XVI

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