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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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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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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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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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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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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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
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Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.
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Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
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Life is such a tragicomedy.
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God guided me to America and gave me a good job. But he also gave me a heart so I would look back.
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You are right to demand that an artist engage his work consciously, but you confuse two different things: solving the problem and correctly posing the question.
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When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
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People often ask me, 'How do you go about choosing who to feature on Into The Gloss?' And I've never had a great answer. Ultimately, I think the #1 thing that draws me to someone is their sense of freedom.
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I think that Shakespeare himself raided fairy tales and chronicle writers, and he always looked to people who worked in the mythic genres, whether it was folk tales or popular novels.
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Usually, I get hired because I'm tall.
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At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that.
