Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

We shouldn't be intimidated by someone else's idea of perfection if it will prevent us from taking steps we actively want to take.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PerfectionSomeoneWantWillSteps

I loved music since the Seth Ward Baptist Church outside of Plainview.

Jimmy Dean

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When I was hitching, I'd be completely decked out. I used to wear this custom-made black jumpsuit, these, like, pink, knee-high platform boots, all kinds of rhinestones, lots of dangling belts and gloves.

Joey Ramone

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As all Americans head forward into the new reality globalization has created, they want leaders who will level with them and help level the playing field.

John B. Larson

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No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

Sholom Aleichem

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Hardships of early human life favored the evolution of certain cognitive tools, among them the ability to infer the presence of organisms that might do harm, to come up with causal narratives for natural events and to recognize that other people have minds of their own with their own beliefs, desires and intentions.

Robin Marantz Henig

LifePeopleToolsHardshipsEarly

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

Rodney Dangerfield

ParentsKidAlwaysFoundThemMoved

It wasn't until I got out of the Army and I heard Coltrane's record 'Coltrane,' when he was doing 'Inch Worm' and 'Out of This World,' that I thought, 'Oh my God, you can do that?' And then I thought, 'OK, I better go back and listen to Eric Dolphy a bit.' And then I said, 'Hmm, I better pull out these Ornette Coleman records.'

Roscoe Mitchell

GodWorldThoughtBetterDoingYou

I think all the history of the Jewish people is about adaptation.

Michel Hazanavicius

HistoryPeopleThinkJewishI Think

We have got a - we've got a good federal work force, but we have too many people, and we're paying them too much money.

Jason Chaffetz

WorkGoodMoneyPeopleToo MuchGot

Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does.

Jonathan Carroll

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When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.

Don Bluth

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I'm not someone who calculates things.

Diane von Furstenberg

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