"We shouldn't be intimidated by someone else's idea……" — Jonathan Safran Foer
"We shouldn't be intimidated by someone else's idea of perfection if it will prevent us from taking steps we actively want to take."
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526 Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
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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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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path…
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John Quincy Adams most certainly was a part of the Revolutionary War era. He was a young boy, but he…
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In 2002, in this country, there was an observation that for the first time in America, more kids were actively…
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The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended…
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A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of…
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We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in…
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If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society.
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Celebrity is a word I take great umbrage with. I'm actively anti-celebrity.
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I try not to be proud. I try to actively attack pride.
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There were two movies that asked me to go to Australia or New Zealand for long periods of time. One…
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When I won the Oscar, I made a point of actively going against that and doing adventure films like 'Con…
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Encouraging self-sufficiency must be a bedrock for our immigration policy, with the goal of reducing poverty, strengthening the family, and…
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