Joshua Foer Quotes

Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like 'knight.'

Joshua Foer

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A man's ability to haggle is never a turn-on. The only thing less romantic than how much you paid is how much you saved. The last thing we want to hear is how you talked the jeweler down on our new earrings.

Jennifer Coolidge

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From my time in Health I know that choice empowers people lives.

John Hutton

HealthTimePeopleChoiceKnow

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Sally Field taught me to do needlepoint on 'Steel Magnolias,' and a standby painter on 'Pelican Brief' taught me to knit. I'm pretty good at it now!

Julia Roberts

GoodMeSteelNowPrettyPainter

I lead my life as normal.

Jonathan King

LifeMy LifeLeadNormal

You can't always do the extraordinary, in between you have to do the ordinary. Because if you didn't, what would constitute the extraordinary?

Christoph Waltz

YouAlwaysExtraordinaryBecause

I'm sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain't me.

Anthony Bourdain

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Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

William Shakespeare

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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

William James

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Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.

Phillips Brooks

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I believe that if you work hard at a relationship, devoting time and energy to it, being willing to grow and experiment, and never take it for granted, that you can continue to feel the initial attraction and excitement indefinitely.

Sylvia Day

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Poverty is the root of all evil.

Sheikh Hasina

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