Franklin Foer Quotes

Putin has made a habit of supporting far-right candidates who undermine his foes in Europe; perhaps he never could have imagined such a character taking root on American soil. Trump's reasons for aligning with Putin have been more innocent, if no less dangerous.

Franklin Foer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CharacterHabitAmericanDangerous

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

CharacterMenThinkNothingMore

When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.

John Legend

PowerPeopleHelpHandUnfairTry

Applause, it's very nice, of course. But when you're giving, and creating, and then there is the silence of everyone sitting there, listening, waiting, that is great.

Anna Netrebko

GreatSilenceWaitingListeningYou

When I started studying for the arias it was like going into training for a heavyweight title fight.

Michael Bolton

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I auditioned for my first show in Delhi and got through. There's no fancy story around it, sadly.

Sriti Jha

StoryFirstThroughFancyGotShow

They think they have God Almighty by the toe.

Ludovico Ariosto

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My abiding childhood memory is watching my uncle perform to thousands in Madison Square Garden. He wore a white suit and came down from the ceiling on a rope, and the crowd went crazy.

Little Louie Vega

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I'm a really slow writer. What I need to start writing on any given day, is a kernel, a line of dialogue, anything I can sense concretely.

Diana Gabaldon

DayWritingStartSlowI CanNeed

When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company office on the west coast, and we moved to San Francisco.

Douglass North

LifeFatherTimeCollegeInsurance

Every year I look at the 'GQ' Best-Dressed List and have thought what an honour it must be to be included. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw my own face in there.

Douglas Booth

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You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

Bob Uecker

PracticeTeamWarmYouWhateverUp

I'm more one of those people you laugh at and not with. I'm not the one with the jokes, I'm the one who falls on her face going up a flight of steps.

Brooklyn Decker

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