Jon Ronson Quotes

My entry into screenwriting was not smooth.

Jon Ronson

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• Gains in corporate profits depend in large part on accelerating global economic growth.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Growth
  • Depend
  • Global

• Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.

  

  Basil Bunting
  • Always
  • Wine
  • Carry

• I think the toughest part for me was when Herschelle said that he obviously looked up to his Captain, and he felt if his Captain could do it, then so could he, and that to me was when it really struck home.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Up
  • Home
  • Think

• I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.

  

  Om Puri
  • Good
  • Working
  • Cinema

• I allegedly am an outsider writer, so I write from the perspective of somebody who doesn't completely fit in. But at the same time, I can state the fact that I don't know of any good writer who is not an outsider writer.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Time
  • Good
  • Perspective

• I have a knife collection.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Collection
  • Knife

• Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • People
  • Religious
  • Sometimes

• I never, ever, when I entered this process of running for president of the United States, thought I would be excluded from the debate table. Ever. What does two terms as governor get you?

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Running
  • Thought
  • Process

• The killjoys initiated automobile crash standards so rigorous that we can't buy a car that hasn't been dropped from the top of a phone pole with our whole family strapped inside.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Family
  • Car
  • Phone

• The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Action

• Donald Trump is Hillary Clinton’s Christmas gift wrapped up under a tree. I am the lump of coal in her stocking.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Up
  • Trump
  • Tree

• The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit labor-power to the greatest possible extent.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Power
  • Value

• 'This short watch that is about to come, or rather these two short watches-why are they called dog watches? Where, heu, heu, is the canine connection?'

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Why
  • Dog
  • Connection

• I think I speak not too strongly when I say that a church in the land without the Spirit of God is rather a curse than a blessing. If you have not the Spirit of God, Christian worker, remember you stand in somebody else's way; you are a tree bearing no fruit, standing where another fruitful tree might grow.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • God
  • Remember
  • Church

• When I'm on a stage, it's just me, singing a song with words that I wrote and I believe in. And if I don't believe in them anymore, I'll stop singing that song.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Believe
  • Song
  • Words

• As a five-year-old kid, I used to sit in front of the TV - I never missed 'Dukes of Hazzard,' not once. It was me and my dad's show.

  

  Christian Kane
  • Dad

• You can't please everyone, but I've always felt you cannot ultimately lose if you give everything you try 110%. You'll always learn something useful, even from a failure, that can be applied to the next challenge or project.

  

  Mark Ryan Adam and the Ants
  • Challenge
  • Failure

• Beauty and fashion is not pain!

  

  Ashley Nell Tipton
  • Fashion
  • Pain

• I guess the big thing to say about 'Pig Farm' is that none of us knows if it works, and we're going in blind. It's in the tradition of 'Urinetown,' kind of - but that's a pretty small tradition. It's possible that it can fail.

  

  Denis O'Hare
  • Pretty
  • Small

• I believe women need to hear stories and see images that they can identify with, not media-fabricated ideals that even the 'role models' themselves can't live up to.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Live

• There are fast chewers and slow chewers, long chewers and short chewers, right-chewing people and left-chewing people. Some of us chew straight up and down, and others chew side-to-side, like cows. Your oral processing habits are a physiological fingerprint.

  

  Mary Roach
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian.

  

  Paulina Porizkova
  • True
  • Lost
  • Boyfriend

• Andre Agassi was my rival in the '90s, and I think as we got older we sort of transcended the game. He was probably the best player I ever played over my career. There's a list of players that were tough, but Andre, certainly, he was the most unique.

  

  Pete Sampras
  • Game
  • Career
  • Player

• My entry into screenwriting was not smooth.

  

  Jon Ronson