Jon Oringer Quotes
Each time I went to create my website, I needed imagery. It was complicated to get, the process was expensive, I had to negotiate rights. I knew there had to be a better way.
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Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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My father had very little formal education.
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Since the 1980s, we've been living in this era, really, of corporate rule, based on this idea that the role of government is to liberate the power of capital so that they can have as much economic growth as quickly as possible, and then all good things will flow from that.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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My biggest hobby is airsoft, which is similar to paintball. Essentially, it's military simulation, but the guns shoot plastic BBs. My friends and I go out in the woods or the desert and play all day long!
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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Oh God, I don't know if I ever really felt beautiful. I don't, really.
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I have lifestyle requirements. Photos, meetings, lunches, dinners, facial care, tooth care. It requires an exorbitant amount of money.
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I respect the system out there in Hollywood, I really do, but I'm very intent on art versus commerce. I want to do it all - film, TV and theatre - if it's the right job.
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Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity.
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You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what you would do differently.
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Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his hand.
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In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.
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We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
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If you're always worried about being on your phone, then you really are missing out on everything that's happening in front of you.
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Some of my best friends here in New York have pasts I have a hard time reconciling with the people I'm close to now. But I wouldn't change them - or their pasts - for anything in the world. Their experiences are what made them the people they are today.
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It had a profound impact on me as a human being, and I did a lot of growing within that, so that will always be a defining moment in my life, a defining time.
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It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.
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I feel like we can't pick who we fall in love with because if we could, we would all make better choices. Your heart just falls where it falls.
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Each time I went to create my website, I needed imagery. It was complicated to get, the process was expensive, I had to negotiate rights. I knew there had to be a better way.
