Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

John C. Maxwell

ChoicesHelpYouDreamUpBigger

Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.

Meghan O'Rourke

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Everything in tennis is so neat and nice but boxing has sport down to its essence; it is very pure and I like that.

Andy Murray

DownBoxingNiceTennisEverything

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

Amanda Hale

WorkBetterGoingComeInstinct

My secret talent is doing the chipmunk voice.

St. Lucia

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I think especially with the Internet and the amount of reality shows that are going on, there's no way to keep a secret anymore, so I try to let my project be as much as reality show as I can allow it to be.

Jason Mraz

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With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.

Doris Lessing

FreeLibraryPoliticalYouTell

If I'm feeling down in the dumps, or like I need a pop of colour, I'll put on MAC's Lipstick in Lady Danger. I discovered red lipstick when I did the Oscar season: Chanel sent me one and I realised how classic and glamorous it can be.

Chloe Sevigny

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They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.

Boris Pasternak

LoveHateYouWantAskThings

Vadim changed my mind about acting. Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer.

Brigitte Bardot

ManMindActingSpecialSomething

It's like when a guy gets a divorce from his wife. You part ways. That's what I did with The Beach Boys.

Brian Wilson

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You are never, ever gonna get a drummer to dis another one. It's part of the drumming rules, as important as being able to keep pace or smashing up hotel rooms. Drummers do not dis!

Philip Selway

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