Jon Ronson Quotes
But when I was doing the KKK I had constant nightmares of being exposed as a Jew and lynched by the Klan.
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I have only one life, so I want to make sure it's a good one.
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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
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We imbue deserts and the tundra with menace because nothing, or little, grows there.
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I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.
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I came from the Groundlings Theatre in L.A., and there, you're guaranteed to at least try something out in front of an audience. At 'SNL,' only the best stuff gets picked, and it's taught me a very defined language of comedy. You learn the structure of a joke, which is not something I was very good at beforehand.
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I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.
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A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.
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I tend to worry about the minutiae of life. But living in the mountains of Idaho and having retreated from fame, I am more in tune with life.
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I love Shirley Maclaine. Love that woman.
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There is nothing like Ruth ever existed in this game of baseball. I remember we were playing the White Sox in Boston in 1919, and he hit a home run off Lefty Williams over the left-field fence in the ninth inning and won the game. It was majestic. It soared.
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I think a lot of people, especially women, feel like to be whole, you need to find part of yourself in another person - probably because of the fables we're told as kids.
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Beijing cannot sit by and let her North Korean ally be bombed, nor can it allow U.S. and South Korean forces to defeat the North, bring down the regime, and unite the peninsula, with U.S. and South Korean soldiers sitting on the Yalu, as they did in 1950 before Mao ordered his Chinese army into Korea.
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If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.
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Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
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Picking my topics is sort of a process of elimination for me. Most things don't work for me. I like to cover science and unexpected things happening in labs. Also, theoretical research doesn't work for my style. I need scenes and interactions. Then, humor. I'm having the most fun when I can have fun with my work.
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Like Hillary Clinton before her, Mrs. Obama has always been a working woman. She is a lawyer turned hospital administrator turned political right hand. It is a unique resume.
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We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.
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The days of dictatorship are over. … We have come a long way. Millions of Egyptians and Iraqis have cast their votes at the ballot box. The Palestinians will follow suit.
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But when I was doing the KKK I had constant nightmares of being exposed as a Jew and lynched by the Klan.
