Joshua Foer Quotes

Back when I lived in Brooklyn, I'd sometimes take the Q train all the way out to Coney Island and back, and work on my laptop. There's something about pushy New Yorkers looking over your shoulder that really makes you produce sentences.

Joshua Foer

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A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.

Joan Didion

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People who got on their feet and freaked about were called idiot dancers. and nobody wants to be called an idiot dancer. But the whole idea of rock and roll is to get people off their arses - that's what it's about.

Steve Marriott

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Luckily, I dated all of the losers ages ago. My love life has been stable for a while.

Solange Knowles

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When I was defense minister, I was very popular, and now that I'm president, I'm unpopular because I'm trying to make peace. It's much easier to make war and get trophies.

Juan Manuel Santos

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Being transgender is not just a medical transition.

Jazz Jennings

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I always loved strange stories like the Dr. Seuss stuff. 'Go, Dog. Go!' was one of my favorite stories - it still is. It's just such a bizarre yet true book. And I did well reading and writing as a kid throughout school. I think early on that's what made me realize what an advantage that is.

Jon Scieszka

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Online advertising may not be much more successful than an old double-barrel, but - like a good spray of buckshot - it makes up for its lack of accuracy with sheer volume. There are 10 unique ads listed with every Gmail message in your queue, each tied to the message content. And a paying sponsor.

Douglas Rushkoff

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I wish I could dance like Michael Jackson. I'd love to be able to have my life exactly the way it is, but with his dance moves.

Donny Osmond

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Everyone I dated was gay.

Debbie Reynolds

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People are dying in vain because this country isn't holding their end of the bargain up as far as, you know, giving freedom and justice and liberty to everybody.

Colin Kaepernick

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My emoji vocabulary is pretty limited to, like, the smiling poop and the rainbow and a unicorn or something.

Bob Morley

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My job as an entertainer is to give a great show.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

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