Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and it's very clear who is on which side. But in a book you can do just the opposite. You can use all lower-case words.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Author Biography

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

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Television has been really good to me in terms of the roles I've been able to get on TV as opposed to the roles I've gotten in film and in theater.

Joe Morton

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I never got a degree; I just started writing.

Joe R. Lansdale

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Low interest rates wipe out savers and devastate middle-class workers. The banksters have orchestrated this wealth transference of trillions, from the poor to the very wealthy. At the expense of everybody who isn't at the top.

Max Keiser

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I think a lot of us feel, when we look at the Dow Jones plunging, alienated - you do feel as if we're in the grip of some alien force that slipped human control.

Robert Harris

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I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record.

Robert Falcon Scott

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My financial service business is the absolute best thing I have done to empower the poor. I run many charities and fight many political causes, but my financial service company is the greatest gift I've given.

Russell Simmons

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Fourteen-year-old boys are not part of a well-regulated militia. Members of wacky religious cults are not part of a well-regulated militia. Permitting unregulated citizens to have guns is destroying the security of this free state.

Molly Ivins

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I think, as a woman, you do sort of have to work twice as hard, but I don't feel as if I wasn't given opportunities.

Lorene Scafaria

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I lost many a role to actresses who couldn't do the job one-hundredth as good as I could.

Diane Ladd

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I would do whatever the haters said they didn't like. They'd say, 'I don't like your lipstick,' so I'd put on more.

Colleen Ballinger

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I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.

Bonnie Raitt

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Every single one of my books had its title changed almost as we were going to press, for all sorts of different reasons.

Susan Orlean

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