Franklin Foer Quotes

The biggest problem is that Facebook and Google are these giant feedback loops that give people what they want to hear. And when you use them in a world where your biases are being constantly confirmed, you become susceptible to fake news, propaganda, demagoguery.

Franklin Foer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 20, 1974

Topics

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My transformation represents more than what is just skin deep; it represents my motivation, drive, and willingness to constantly improve.

Jinder Mahal

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I learned a valuable life lesson that summer. You should find something in life that you really enjoy and seriously consider making that your life's work.

Jim Evans

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I've got a poem that's in a lot of international anthologies called 'After the Anonymous Swedish' and I thought, 'Well, I'm a Swede. I can make up a Swedish poem.' It turned out pretty good.

Jim Harrison

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I was with my dad 20 years ago as he was dying. I was there at the moment of his death, and I kept wondering the whole while what it must feel like from his point of view to still be there thinking, hearing all that was going on as people came and went, and life continued all around him.

Jill McCorkle

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I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album.

Mel Torme

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Fast cars are my only vice.

Michael Bay

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I lived in St. Louis, Missouri, and now my kids are growing up in Los Angeles, so that's culturally very different.

Sterling K. Brown

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I am not a big fan of positive thinking. The term suggests that there is something negative that you have to counteract by being positive. That is an artificial duality.

Srikumar Rao

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The main jokes in this film are about big things, love and life and zombies - we all get that.

Simon Pegg

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Beard's secret is always to be slightly on the edge but to pull back from disaster at the last minute.

Mary Beard

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You know we are flawed people, so if someone is going to make a movie about me, they don't have to make it up. My real flaws are much funnier.

Michael Moore

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As an actress, I have to be objective about myself. If I don't criticize myself, there are plenty who will do a find job of it for me!

Loretta Young

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