Franklin Foer Quotes

When the mayor of Sao Paulo wanted to increase bus fare by 21 centavos in 2013, the country erupted in the largest mass protests in its history. It wasn't a dramatic hike - just nine cents - but a perfect symbol of the increasing burdens on the working poor, forced to fend with an inadequate system, insensitive to their plight.

Franklin Foer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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There's no thrill like throwing a touchdown pass.

Joe Montana

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After 'The Real Thing,' I thought about giving up acting because it's difficult to have a rich life outside your work when you're an actress, a private life that can survive being picked up and put down. That's what I thought, anyway.

Jennifer Ehle

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I love science and that time in history when science and the humanities were the same thing.

Andrew Lincoln

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The important thing for me as an artist is to keep going back to the page and doing what I do.

Matthew Quick

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When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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I haven't played Hedda Gabler yet, but maybe if I did I might find the funny bits.

Sophie Thompson

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Unending joy is actually closer to us than our own skin, and there is nothing we have to do or get or be to experience it. All we have to do is stop driving it away.

Srikumar Rao

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Rotavirus does not cause all diarrhea, but it causes a lot of it. Instead of a single vaccine dose, however, harried nurses may have to give several, as diarrhoea makes it difficult for a child to retain anything.

Rose George

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I wanted to fulfill my dream of playing in the NFL.

Chris Borland

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I was never a Certified Public Accountant... I just had a degree in accounting. The reason I was never a Certified Public Accountant was because it would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.

Bob Newhart

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I am in awe of Ruth Draper.

Annette Bening

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Johnny Depp is so special that he is like a Martian. In fact, that's what I call him, Martian.

Penelope Cruz

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