Joshua Foer Quotes

I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes doesn't, and what its potential might be.

Joshua Foer

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MemoryPotentialSometimesUnderstand

It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.

Joe Baca

OpportunityFreedomEqualityPeople

I think with every successful consumer Internet business, there will be lawyers that are interested in going after your company, especially when they think that there's a financial incentive.

Jeremy Stoppelman

BusinessThinkFinancialInternet

The impression sometimes created among the public is that scientists are working away in their labs, and maybe they're not always thinking about the implications of their work. But we are.

Jennifer Doudna

WorkThinkingSometimesAlwaysAway

I am not sure gender ever won't be an issue in comedy, because I think that women do have different priorities in some respects.

Jenny Eclair

WomenI AmThinkPrioritiesComedy

When you can't lend or trade - and you can't invest with the leverage that juiced returns to support seven- and eight-figure bonuses - how exactly are you going to make money?

Andrew Ross Sorkin

MoneySupportYouLeverageGoing

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Amelia Earhart

LifeCouragePeacePrice

The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people and places spring to life as if the reader was in their presence.

Simon Schama

LifeTruthChallengeSpringPeople

When I was in school, martial arts made you a dork, and I became self-conscious that I was too masculine. I was a 16-year-old girl with ringworm and cauliflower ears. People made fun of my arms and called me 'Miss Man.' It wasn't until I got older that I realized: These people are idiots. I'm fabulous.

Ronda Rousey

GirlManSchoolFunPeopleMe

And also they were absolutely brilliant in one way, you know: they knew how effective is not to punish somebody who is guilty; what Communist Party members could afford to do was mind-boggling: they could do practically anything they wanted - steal, you know, lie, whatever.

Milos Forman

LieYouGuiltyPartyKnowWay

In Iraq during the days of Saddam, I had a government minder who followed me everywhere, reported on my activities.

Janine di Giovanni

GovernmentMeDaysActivitiesWho

I haven't always been fashionable, but I've always not really cared so much about how I dress.

Ashton Moio

DressAlwaysBeenMuchHowReally

I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door.

Arthur Miller

WalkSleepDoorYouHouseDream

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