Jon Ronson Quotes
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I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.
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I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.
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I treasure my meetings with individuals affected by autism - parents, children, teachers and friends. Their strength is inspiring. They deserve all possible opportunities for education, employment and integration.
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It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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When you have a 'solution thinking mindset' - and choose to focus 80% of your thoughts/words on solutions - you will not only be heading more speedily to long-term success, but you will immediately feel better in the moment.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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It's weird: for someone who mostly really exists online, I'm actually not very interested in the Internet at all.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.
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There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
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If we studied birds, maybe we could learn to be free.
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It took three years to put Shakespeare's words together, there were a lot of words to be studied and a lot of words to be sorted out, and it proved to be a major project.
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I've known Timbaland for a while. We developed a friendship. He always said he would come back for me when he was ready, and he did. We've been rocking and rolling since we got together a couple of years ago. I'm blessed to be under his mentorship, and grateful he's opened so many doors for me.
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So that there is enough to keep life together, it matters little what it is.
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Film is like a casserole. Everybody is thrown into a pot, and we're all in it together.
