Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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My work at NASA has always been about team efforts, and so it's intrinsically about mentoring. I have been blessed with some brilliant colleagues who were able to take on huge challenges without a lot of guidance.

John C. Mather

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I also always carry my flute. It's very important for me to try to relax when I'm travelling, and playing my flute helps me to unwind.

Andrea Bocelli

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It is a joy to be an artist, but it doesn't mean very much unless that work is somehow useful in some way and contributes to others.

Angelina Jolie

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I still dance, probably three times a week, unless I'm working on a crazy job, and then I just don't have any free time at all.

Summer Glau

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A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

Sigmund Freud

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When I get inspired, I give out free music. If you look at my track record from the beginning, that's always what I've done. I've never changed.

Dawn Richard

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I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.

Antonio Tabucchi

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The secret of the wise man is to learn from the errors of others.

Alisson

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War and armed conflict disproportionately affect women and can turn what is supposed to be a joyous and beautiful experience - childbirth - into a horrific or even fatal one.

Philomena Kwao

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Well, there's that girl on the Internet - although this isn't an example of someone who doesn't know they're on - but there's a girl on the Internet who posts one photograph every two minutes from her bedroom.

Peter Weir

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Sexy is kind of like an aura around someone.

Shane West

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The mindfulness revolution is not quite as dramatic as the moon shot or the civil rights movement, but I believe, in the long run, it can have just as great an impact.

Tim Ryan

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