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Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

When you read something you have written, you have to confront some of the lies you have been telling yourself.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Yourself You Something Been Lies

Yes, there will be challenges, and things will blow up in your face, but learning experiences are different from wasting your life pushing a boulder up a hill.

Life Learning Challenges Face Hill

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Man Happy Loss Wealth Dirt Shirt

I want to create an environment where I can create technology, get it into the hands of someone to market it, and move on to other technologies so I can keep innovating. I want to be a serial entrepreneur: Incubate an idea, get it to a good state, and make that an enabler to get to the next state. It's every researcher's fantasy.

Good Technology Someone Hands Create

For all of its well-deserved reputation for pragmatism, American popular culture frequently nurtures or at least tolerates preposterous views and theories. Witness the 9/11 'truthers' who, lacking any evidence whatsoever, claim that 9/11 was a Bush administration plot.

Culture Reputation American Evidence

During the Cold War, America took sides not only in disputes between Arab countries, but also in debates within them.

War Cold America Sides Within Only

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

Fear Day New Day Ideas New Never

Leadership and greatness comes to those who follow-through. Who stand for near-flawless execution.

Robin S. Sharma

Leadership Greatness Stand Execution

I hate Bollywood. The movies are all garbage, just terrible. It's my opinion; obviously, there are billions who like and love them. I don't like all the singing, dancing and all the dramatic crying. I have never seen a Bollywood film in my life.

Life Love Hate Opinion Singing

Not really, and actually my cholesterol was 190 when I had the heart attack. 190, which isn't that high. I took it down to about 130 and it's probably about 140 or 145 now.

Heart Down Now High Attack Actually

You will only be remembered for two things: the problems you solve or the ones you create.

Problems You Create Will Remembered

Most Jupiter-sized planets orbit the mother star in a highly elliptical orbit. This means they will often cross the orbit of any Earth-like planet and fling it into outer space, making life impossible. But our Jupiter travels in a near-perfect circular orbit, preventing a collision with any Earth-like planet, making life possible.

Life Mother Space Impossible Will

I find airports to be purgatorial in many ways. I mean, even from the basics of the design: you know, this sort of - this muted gray and the fluorescent lights.

Design You Find Lights Know Mean

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