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Franklin Foer Quotes

Trump uses the phrase 'America First,' only dimly aware that he is repeating a phrase from the interwar years and indifferent to its historic resonances. But he compulsively echoes that period - another time when leaders described the world in apocalyptic terms.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Time World America First Years Only

You have a different crowd every night, so you should do a different show to suit them. I tailor the show to their mood.

Night You Mood Tailor Suit Crowd

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

Walls Book Voice Story Place Will

I am amused by cricket because it seems to take longer than baseball and I like that. It seems like a sport I could have made up it - it takes several days to play and everyone wears sweaters. I can't confess to knowing what's going on at all.

Baseball I Am Cricket Play Knowing

After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.

Thought Year Old Years Here Checks

I've had some interesting stuff happen to me - so why doesn't anyone ask me?

Amanda Marshall

Me Interesting Why Ask Happen Stuff

I saw my friends being beaten because they said no to child marriage.

Sonita Alizadeh

Marriage Child Friends Said Saw

I believed and still believe that success is only part of the story. It makes you want to get better and better so as not to let yourself down and not to let the people down who like what you do and you don't waste your success.

Success Yourself People Believe You

Robotics has been around forever, and it's been the next big thing forever, and it is so exciting and compelling that it's easy to get carried away. People almost always do, and that's one of the things that has held back the industry.

People Easy Back Always Next Big

Lawyers advocate more so than state their own positions.

Lawyers More Advocate Own Than

In the Iraq war, for instance, so much of the information is digitized and can easily be wiped out. That will make it very hard to write accurate histories. Also, there's a much greater opportunity for suppression of information before it can even be archived.

Opportunity War Information Will Out

White artists have made millions of dollars off music they stole from black artists. I don't blame all the white artists. I'm a huge Stevie Ray Vaughn fan, and he was always very gracious about where he learned his music. But a lot of the time, you'd think the white guys thought it up. Hey, hasn't anyone heard of Muddy Waters?

Music Time Blame Think Thought You

I think it's an interesting thing to me, because we have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if you go through your daily actions, very little ends up having a written-down explanation for why things happen, or why people do specific things.

Daily People Me Think Interesting

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