Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

What the world does not need is a Haggadah that pats itself on the back. It needs a Haggadah that gets out of the way, that starts a conversation and gets out of the way.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

Jimi Hendrix

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Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.

Matthew Simpson

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I've always felt that there's a Catskills comic who lives in my head and is constantly trying to get out. There's all these jokes that have been passed down from Jewish generation to Jewish generation, which I love but which I've always made fun of.

Andy Kindler

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The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

Anais Nin

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Ultimately, there's always been a link between comic books and video games, and comic books and movies, and then basically all three steadily becoming this sort of transmedia.

Troy Duffy

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I grew up with brothers, and we would play-fight a lot.

Tracy Spiridakos

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It is said that the way to prevent obesity is not to allow kids to become overweight in the first place. But it takes a multi-pronged approach that has to start with parents. Kids are just too young to understand the consequences of obesity.

Lisa Ling

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Metallica is going to be one of those bands you look back on in the year 2008, that people will still listen to the way I still listen to Zeppelin and Sabbath albums.

Jason Newsted

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I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

Clint Eastwood

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The Premier League is a very closely contested league.

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It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that were followed during our parents' generation were basically arbitrary. This caused a rift between the two generations, which was brought on by the beatniks.

Peter Fonda

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I don't like going out. I'm more of a watch TV, hang out, Netflix kind of guy. I don't like leaving; I don't like talking to people. It gives me anxiety.

Pete Davidson

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