Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

I see bad stuff on the street all the time that I don't do anything about. I do bad stuff myself all the time. The goal is not to somehow be perfect - that's silly, that's naive. The goal is to just recognize there are choices in front of us, and to try to make better ones.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Author Biography

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

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Europe is no longer a Christian continent; few Europeans attend religious services on Sunday, and the European Union recently refused to refer to Europe's religious heritage in its fledgling constitution.

Meir Soloveichik

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'The Miracle Worker' is just such an incredibly powerful play on stage, and is so kinetic, and athletic.

John Patrick Shanley

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If you have a problem, you have to recognize it and solve it.

Mauricio Macri

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I'm a sucker for sad disco pop.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

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If civilians are going to be killed, I would rather have them be their civilians than our civilians.

Stuart Symington

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I don't think there's anything they can say about me that I haven't said about myself already. And I would be an absolute total liar, and my fans would not respect me, if I said that my life and my marriage are perfect. But we absolutely love each other; we have fun together - it's great.

Mary J. Blige

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I took all the courses you would need to be able to go to law school. But my experience in college with football made me want to go into coaching.

Marv Levy

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The idea of the live-virus vaccine is to produce in a continuous way some viral antigens.

Luc Montagnier

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I owe my whole acting career to the fact that I'm a singer. I went out to Los Angeles and auditioned for a TV show called 'Fame L.A.' The original role was for a comedian, but they said I wasn't very funny, so they asked me, 'What else can you do?' So I played a singer.

Christian Kane

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I'm an athlete. I'm not a big golf nerd in that aspect. I'm not big on the history.

Brooks Koepka

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A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.

Alfred Nobel

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After the Fukushima disaster, Japan shut down most of its reactors and said it would move to renewables.

Shi Zhengrong

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