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Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

Look, taste is clearly the crudest of our senses: this is scientifically, objectively factual. It is less nuanced. Eyesight is extraordinary - hearing, touch. I find people who devote their whole lives to taste a little strange.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: February 21, 1977

Topics

People Look Find Strange Touch

Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

Maya Angelou

Courage Small Things Yourself Small

My standard Nando's order is a chicken breast burger served 'medium,' which is still fairly spicy.

John Lanchester

Burger Chicken Spicy Order Still

The select group of people who do make realistic cinema, who do make cinema perhaps a little more acceptable to the Western audience, is a very small percentage.

Amitabh Bachchan

People Small Cinema Group More Who

I've been very lucky in the freedom that I've been given. Every artist needs two types of freedom: You need the freedom to - the freedom to come up with an idea or treatment - and then you need the other half of the freedom, and that's freedom from - somebody saying, 'This is great. This is how I want you to do it.'

Steve Sabol

Freedom Great Saying You Artist Up

I can't advise any of the young ones, because I don't know what their background was, but I would suggest that anyone who wants to be famous more than anything - there's a real problem.

Shirley MacLaine

Famous Problem Know Young More Real

I was done with my second major label deal, and I was doing a lot of urban sessions, and I had an acoustic itch. And you know, I picked up a ukulele. I always wanted one. And it just resonated with me. I would wake up with this uke in my hand. For me the ukulele just opened this door in my heart.

Heart Me Door Wake Up Doing You

Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Time Architecture Slow Structure

Every night when I go out on stage, there's always one nagging fear in the back of my mind. I'm always afraid that somewhere out there, there is one person in the audience that I'm not going to offend!

Don Rickles

Fear Mind Night Back Person Go

I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-'60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn't the night before.

Dick Cavett

Night Him Working Advantage Still

It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

I Am Night Wake Up Think Problem

But because I could throw so hard when I got to college they made me a pitcher.

Shemar Moore

College Me Hard Because Throw Made

I say to my father quite frequently that my success professionally is very much due to the guidance he gave me and to watching him in the business world. He really taught me to fight for what is right. He taught me to persevere and never give up.

Shari Redstone

Success Never Give Up Father Business