Jon Oringer Quotes
Every time someone downloads a picture, the photographers get paid about 30% of what we charge.
Quotes to Explore
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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I can get moody sometimes when I wake up after a nap - I'm like a four-year-old.
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
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Most people who are looking to get a handgun are going to get a carry permit. But most people don't carry around rifles with them; they keep them at home or at the range.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
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Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.
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Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.
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It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.
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Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir.
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Fresh sneakers are important on a man. It's like a new pair of boxers or a new pair of socks.
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Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on.
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I'm all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to be meaningful and give the book what's really 'at stake,' but ultimately it's not about them - it's always a personal story of everyday people thrust into life-threatening situations and having to perform heroic acts.
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Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.
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Having casual conversations with the likes of Lena Dunham and Kim Kardashian makes me weak in the knees. I have so much respect and admiration for Lena that it doesn't matter how many times I talk to her - I get starstruck.
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Every time someone downloads a picture, the photographers get paid about 30% of what we charge.
