Jon Ronson Quotes
But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me.
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Most police officers are good cops and good people.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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I'm involved with Kid One Transport and Studio by the Tracks in Alabama. Kid One literally transports kids to better health by giving them transportation they may need to get medical care. Studio by the Tracks is an art outlet for mentally challenged children.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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The way we remember people, even their beauty is all so subjective and a matter of perspective.
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I was quite a successful evangelist. I've had people write to me and say, 'Gee, I'm a Christian because of you and I hear you're not a Christian, that's shocking to me.' I don't take these things lightly, but that's who I am. I can't change it.
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You're not a slave to those test audiences.
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The flames of the heart consumed me, and the mindIs but a foolish wind.
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I was truly sorry for Mr. Bryan. But I consoled myself by thinking of the years through which he had busied himself tormenting intelligent professors with impudent questions about their faith, and seeking to arouse the ignoramuses and bigots to drive them out of their positions.
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There is no nature which is inferior to art, the arts imitate the nature of things.
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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.
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Restaurants are like kids. You hope you understand their innate gifts, and then you let them realize their aspirations.
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Conflict, of course, comes about because of the misuse of power and the clash of ideals, not to mention the inflammatory activities of unscrupulous and bigoted leaders. But it also arises, tragically, from an inability to understand and from the powerful emotions which, out of misunderstanding, lead to distrust and fear.
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Hey, I'm happy someone is hiring me. It could be all over. I'm so lucky to have a job.
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People are always saying it's the end of the Gutenberg era. More to the point, it's a return to an oral era. The Gutenberg galaxy was about the written word. At its best, the digital era is part of the rediscovery of the oral. At its worst, it's a Kafkaesque victory of the bureaucratic over the imagination.
