Jon Ronson Quotes
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Tell the truth.
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I'm more for the style than the brand. I don't go brand shopping; I go detail shopping.
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I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud.
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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
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When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.
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I called Daley Thompson after the Games of '84, when he won. He'd had this phenomenal decathlon for nine events - and then he went out there and jogged the 1,500 meters and missed the world record by, like, three points.
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It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.
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Asian players train so hard. Most of the time, on Monday mornings, the only people you see on the range are Asians. I mean, only see Asians.
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I don't have a job, so I sit in the studio all the time and think of stupid stuff to do.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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I appreciate everything that has been done for me. After a difficult start, I've just followed my dreams.
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If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.
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If I ever have downtime, I'm usually sitting in my place playing video games. Or eating sandwiches somewhere, or watching sports some place.
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The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
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I'm a very, very healthy eater. I eat lots of fish, lots of vegetables, lots of fruit. I don't eat junk food.
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Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.
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I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or some other biometric test.
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He touched me...Control myself and try to actAs if I remember my nameBut he touched me...he touched me...And suddenly nothing is the same!
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What we do need to worry about is the possibility that we will be reduced, in the face of the enormities of our time, to silence or to mere protest.
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Men are separated by so many petty things.
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Lysistrata: O women, if we would compel the men to bow to Peace, ... We must refrain from every depth of love.... Why do you turn your backs? Where are you going? Why do you bite your lips and shake your heads? Why are your faces blanched? Why do you weep? (tr. Lindsay 1925, Perseus)
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There should be characters and situations that we cannot identify with, that retain either too much horror or too much wonder to allow for simple identification. That feels to me like an accurate depiction of what it is like to be in the world, rather than a neutered register of continual empathy.
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The rates of soda consumption in our poorest communities cannot be explained by individual consumer preferences alone, but rather are linked to broader issues of access and affordability of healthy foods in low-income neighborhoods, and to the marketing efforts of soda companies themselves.
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You can say anything to David Icke and he will accept it and put it into his ideology.
