Jon Ronson Quotes

Misuse of privilege is seen as the worst sin.

Jon Ronson

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• I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.

  

  Bar Paly
  • Women
  • Movie
  • Beautiful

• My career is a journey for me, and any journey is incomplete without the struggle.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Career
  • Me
  • Struggle

• I knew that the artists that I loved the most had something about them that was very unfiltered and very rough.

  

  Gallant
  • Something
  • Loved
  • Very

• I have reservations about everything I do.

  

  Larry David
  • Everything
  • Reservations

• The reality is that not only were we massively hit in 2008 when the bubble burst, and then we realized how deep the social gap, the economic gap in the world is between the super rich and the poor; also, we realized how impacted the environment has been. So there's been a physical consequence of that.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • World
  • Reality
  • Environment

• Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Lost
  • Problem
  • Crazy

• Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Choices
  • Human
  • Perspective

• I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Audience
  • Dumb
  • Elitism

• In the '50s, audiences accepted a level of artifice that the audiences in 1966 would chuckle at. And the audiences of 1978 would chuckle at what the audience of 1966 said was okay, too. The trick is to try to be way ahead of that curve, so they're not chuckling at your movies 20 years down the line.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Years
  • Movies
  • Down

• I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Up
  • Day
  • Rest

• For a lot of people, it's a massive deal to be on the front row at Fashion Week and look perfect. I don't go to be seen; I go to look at the collections and support my friends, like Henry, Giles and Jonathan Saunders. As much as I love clothes and shopping, it doesn't drive me.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • People
  • Love
  • Friends

• A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Good
  • Men
  • Truth

• I first learned how to do hair from drag queens. I learned eyelashes are the key to life, because they make everyone look fabulous.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Life
  • Hair
  • First

• To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Faith
  • Fashion
  • Suffering

• I don't concentrate on any one period of history; I like to locate my stories in wildly different eras and places. I seem to be drawn to large, sprawling, uncomfortable swaths of American history, finding embedded within them a tight narrative that involves strife, heroism, and survival under difficult circumstances.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Different
  • American
  • History

• If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Good
  • Money

• I love production. I could do it 365 days a year. Post is different. It's just too slow, and everything is very finite.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Different
  • Production
  • Finite

• I am a committed observer. I like staying in the background and seeing what's going on.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Background
  • Observer

• The key measurement will not be how many people are watching the Univision network. But, believe me, I still think we are going to grow and are shooting for No. 1, and that spot is certainly on our radar. But engagement will be the focus and the main measure.

  

  Randy Falco
  • People
  • Believe
  • Focus

• It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Action

• A valuable lesson I’ve learned from making music is to never let anyone intimidate me. Every student, celebrity, CEO and math teacher in the world has experienced love, loneliness, fear and embarassment at some point. To understand this is to level an often very lopsided playing field.

  

  Anna Nalick
  • Fear
  • Loneliness
  • Intimidate

• Misuse of privilege is seen as the worst sin.

  

  Jon Ronson