Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FamilyHistoryBestEatingBetter

I meditate and do yoga. I sit cross-legged and try not to levitate too much.

Jeremy Brett

Too MuchTrySitMuchYogaMeditate

The federal government neither has the power to site transmission lines, nor do we build them. That's done, as people know, in their own communities. The siting decisions and the permitting is done at the local level, or by state governments if it's interstate in nature. And federal government - this is one area we have no authority.

Spencer Abraham

NaturePowerGovernmentPeopleKnow

National identity is something that's directly connected to our personal experiences and the decisions we make, the roads we decide to take at certain points in our life.

Miguel Zenon

LifeRoadsIdentityDecisionsDecide

He's so ugly he should have to wear an oxygen mask.

Mickey Rivers

UglyMaskWearOxygenHeShould

There's a kind of integrity to being an observer of a culture. I think Canadians have that privilege innately. We are, like, the observers of the American culture.

Luke Macfarlane

IntegrityCultureThinkAmerican

When I first met my girlfriend, Mercy Malick, she asked me if there was anything I should tell her that could put her off me if she found out later. So I told her that I was a total 'Star Wars' geek and had boxes of 'Star Wars' toys in storage.

Joseph Gatt

MeMercyToysSheFirstGirlfriend

It takes a mighty good man to be better than no man at all.

Dixie Carter

GoodManGood ManBetterMighty

I started promoting clubs when I was 15. 1 was doing what is considered the normal collegiate stuff when I was a lot younger. I was holding my own, but doing a lot of crazy things.

Brian Austin Green

CrazyDoingMy OwnNormalOwnStuff

When I was a little kid we moved to Tulsa, then to St. Louis and, by the time I was in kindergarten, we lived in Springfield, Missouri. There I basically grew up.

Brad Pitt

TimeKidKindergartenUpLived

Humanitarian assistance, once conceived as a short-term relief effort, is increasingly the only substitute for long-term development work in protracted armed conflicts.

Peter Maurer

WorkEffortDevelopmentLong-Term

When something in the sweet science doesn't look right, most likely it isn't.

Thomas Hauser

ScienceSweetLookRightSomething

Fear makes you do stupid things.

Ricardo Salinas Pliego

FearStupidYouThingsMakes

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