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Joshua Foer Quotes

Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 23, 1982

Topics

Life Live Daily Time Day Short

I don't cry. Well, you know, I think coming from an acting background that's really helped me because I more than anyone know that an actor creates a character.

Character Me Think You Acting Know

No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian nuclear power plant.

Power Plant Kind Seriously Become

I've never been a fan of euphemism.

Never Been Fan Euphemism

I rage against Vincent van Gogh for needing to die at 37, after painting for only ten years.

Painting Die Ten Years Years Rage

I've got nothing left to lose at this point. The work I've done is out there.

Work Lose Done Nothing Out Point

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

John Dalberg-Acton

Evil Democracy Tyranny Party Fraud

Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a God and if he is a loving and merciful God, how do you explain the problems of suffering and death and all the tragedies that happen to people?

God Time Death I Am Suffering You

I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.

Family You Know Say Write Up

Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation.

Value Judgment Analysis Absolutely

Pop culture mirrors culture, and, I think, as a rapper, hip-hop in a lot of ways mirrors the things that are happening in urban neighborhoods.

Culture Think Mirrors Hip-Hop Rapper

It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle decade of the twentieth century is emptiness.

Practice People Colleagues Problem

I just cut songs I love and that represent what I want to say. And if it crosses over, that's very flattering. It's cool to know that with people listening to rock and rap, I'm sitting on their iPods along with that stuff.

Love People Cool Listening Know Say

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