Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

It's not worth getting too excited about thinking about the larger picture. The larger picture doesn't come into focus for an awfully long time.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Growing up where I did, the thought of working on a television show or in a movie... that existed on a parallel plane, you know?

Jennifer Garner

Growing UpThoughtYouTelevisionUp

I don't think bonuses are always bad.

Andrew Cuomo

ThinkBadAlways

Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy.

Robert Kennedy

DemocracyCitizenshipRightsUsOnly

If you are a big company, a big website, and lots of users come to your website, you will have attacks, and you have to deal with that. It just cannot be a reason to take actions to exit certain markets.

Robin Li

YouWebsiteWillReasonExitBig

It absolutely helped - to write the father in both 'Juicy' and 'Beasts,' I had to see the whole story from his point of view. All of a sudden I understood more of what my own father must be going through - the fear, the frustration, the anger... the hope that he'll leave a legacy.

Lucy Alibar

FearFatherHopeAngerLegacyStory

I'm not very knowledgeable when it comes to designers, but I love going to fashion shows just to see the other personalities that show up. It's such an eclectic group, and everybody is sort of like an artist.

Cobie Smulders

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You feel the Olympics and you get chills and nervous and a little scared. You go through the emotional roller coaster at what it's like to compete at the Olympic level and you let that run through your whole body.

Bode Miller

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We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate.

Allen Tate

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Alfred North Whitehead

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I remember playing with some friends and being aware that I was acting as I was playing with them - I would think of a character and pretend to be someone else.

Penelope Cruz

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My career always took me away from home, I was always away from home and I just wanted to be at home.

Tina Turner

HomeMeCareerAlwaysAwayJust

In L.A., I worked as a bagger at a Ralphs for about two weeks. And I said, 'I just can't do that.' Not that it's a bad job. I would put the bread down and then the cans down on the bread, so I got fired. Or I just left. I'm not really sure which one happened.

Ryan Hansen

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