Jon Oringer Quotes

In 2013, we opened our first international office in London and established a European hub in Berlin.

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• It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Different
  • Growing
  • Process

• Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can't add or read?

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Thinking
  • Why
  • Kids

• People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Happy
  • Crazy

• The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Brain
  • Study
  • Same

• I remember the days of sitting at book signings, playing with my pen when no one would come, and still I even then thought I was living the dream, because I had a book out.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Dream

• I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Love
  • Relationship
  • Passion

• The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I often forget for great stretches that I eventually hope to do the latter.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Mind

• I want tragic and poetic forever! That's how I want to live every day.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Live
  • Want
  • Day

• I am gay, and I'm very comfortable with it.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Gay
  • Comfortable

• There are so many people who are arguing or fighting over issues which don't have much relevance. We must all realise it is not worth it.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • People
  • Fighting
  • Worth It

• I have been to hell and back. I have seen the edge. I have seen the dark side of life.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • Dark
  • Hell

• People think I must have been turning cartwheels on the night I sealed the movie deal - which was only two days after sealing the book deal - but I was really quite terrified.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • People
  • Book
  • Movie

• After 2003, we lowered taxes across the board. And by 2004, revenue to the federal government grew. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan cut taxes dramatically. And by the end of the decade, revenue coming in the federal government had doubled.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • Government
  • End
  • Taxes

• When I stepped down from the evening news at the age of 65, in '81, things were still going well. Immediately after that, the whole tenor of the CBS News Department changed.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Age
  • News
  • Evening

• Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • World
  • Me
  • Language

• In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • Country
  • War

• I think that, in the end, the military behavior and intelligence services are not very different from each other. It's an attitude of hunters; they're observing the prey.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Different
  • Military
  • Attitude

• I don't know any Beatles songs. My dad never listened to Elvis or Sting or Bowie. Any band name that's on a t-shirt, I probably won't know their music, like AC/DC or whatever. I don't know what that is. As a kid, I would sing along to artists like Tania Maria.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Music
  • Know
  • Dad

• For a man who finds life tolerable only by staying on the surface of himself, it is natural to be satisfied with offering no more than his surface to others. There are few demands to be met, and no commitment is required. Marriage, on the other hand, closes the door. Your existence is confined to a narrow space in which you are constantly forced to reveal yourself – and therefore, constantly obliged to look into yourself, to examine your own depths.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Men
  • Commitment
  • Existence

• The thing that has always interested me - amidst the scale, the historical spectacle, or the social significance or the political resonance - has been the relationships.

  

  Edward Zwick
  • Political

• If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality.

  

  Christopher Meloni
  • Reality

• Private funding was one of the first methods used when MIT funded Bitcoin core developers Gavin Andresen, Wladimir van der Laan, and Cory Fields in 2015.

  

  Fred Ehrsam

• I wear girls' jeans, a lot of black, and I wear a lot of jewelry. I'm a wacky person!

  

  Jamie Blackley
  • Black
  • Jewelry

• In 2013, we opened our first international office in London and established a European hub in Berlin.

  

  Jon Oringer