"He was someone whom everyone admired and liked……" — Jonathan Safran Foer
"He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend."
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526 Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Safran Foer has 526 quotes on this site.
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We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We…
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August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the…
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SADNESSES OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart;…
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The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are…
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Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it wouldn't be the most reasonable way to…
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Be the instrument playing the sound of your life's passing
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I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to…
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Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the…
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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would…
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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that…
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Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or…
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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as…
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He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.
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I can't say I ever loved my mother; I admired her.
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My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.
— Sandra Bullock
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Helen Mirren is someone that I have really admired ever since I saw her in 'Excalibur.' That was the first…
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I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.
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My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman.
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Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia…
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I've always been intrigued by the Senate, and admired many of the people who have served there.
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The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
— Jean Cocteau
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As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats…
— Leonard Cohen
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I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers…
— Piers Anthony
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