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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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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Defend your opinion only if it can be shown to be true, not because it is your opinion.
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I've repeatedly warned we must avoid the extremists: those who say we should pull out our troops in Vietnam immediately, those who say we should escalate and go right into North Vietnam... I tell you, we should continue doing what we have been: just messing around.
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We've struggled a little bit with losing our focus at times. But we didn't do that in the first half tonight. We clicked on all cylinders.
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I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who have written on this subject demonstrate and prove, as do the eclipses of the moon and other experiments that are made from east to west, and the elevation of the North Star from north to south.
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While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.
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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.
