Jon Ronson Quotes
At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
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Like brown rice, black rice is unmilled, and it is the dark outer husk that makes it so nutty and chewy. It's also why it takes longer to cook than many other rices.
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My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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Sometimes when you play a character, you can feel it in your body. And I felt like I had characteristics of my dog: the way Webster moves, the way he holds his head. I kind of adapted it into this part unconsciously.
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Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
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When I signed back with Detroit, I signed to retire a Piston.
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Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?' And that dulls us to the other pleasures poetry offers.
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There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar.
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I just think in order for someone to understand my game, they have to watch me more than once, because I'm not going to do anything that's extra flashy or freakishly athletic.
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No, I'm not a very methodologically pure actor.
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At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that.
