Joshua Foer Quotes

Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory.

Joshua Foer

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HumorCultureMemoryIdeasWorld

I was lucky to grow up in a culturally diverse area knowing a lot of different people from all different walks of life.

Anjelah Johnson

LifePeopleGrowLuckyKnowingUp

The revolution of Saint Domingo was taking its course. I saw that the whites could not endure, because they were divided and because they were overpowered by numbers; I congratulated myself that I was a black man.

Toussaint Louverture

MyselfManRevolutionBlackNumbers

The graphic style itself is influenced by a lot of very layered and detailed comics that I read as a kid, like 'Vagabond' by Takehiko Inoue.

Toyin Odutola

StyleKidLikeReadComicsVery

You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.

Rita Mae Brown

CarSomeoneYouCliffSellOff

I'm a terrible cook, so I usually eat out with friends.

Moby

FriendsEatOutCookTerrible

I was used to playing misled youth, rough-and-tumble guys. It was nice to get back to a big-hearted, warm and gentle soul, a guy who is destined for something a lot larger than he ever expected.

Milo Ventimiglia

SoulYouthWarmBackNiceGentle

I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.

Joyce Carol Oates

MyselfSchoolWritingHigh School

I can't read fiction when I'm writing fiction, because I get intimidated if I read something really good.

Judy Blume

GoodWritingFictionSomethingGet

To master a new technology, you have to play with it.

Jordan Peterson

TechnologyYouPlayNewMaster

I do some three-part harmonies on 'Throes of Rejection' and 'Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks,' but I didn't go overboard with it.

Dimebag Darrell

RejectionGoHardCheeksLinesSome

I didn't play football in school, but I've been a fan of football all my life. I have a fair understanding of it. Doing movies about it really helps because you know what makes them work and what doesn't.

Dennis Quaid

LifeWorkFootballSchoolMy Life

Nothing focuses your mind quite like flying a jet. That's one reason NASA requires that astronauts fly T-38s: it forces us to concentrate and prioritize in some of the same ways we need to in a rocket ship.

Chris Hadfield

MindFlyFlyingShipNASANothing

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