Jon Ronson Quotes
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The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.
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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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When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
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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 had a suit made for me when I was five. It was double-breasted, mohair and purple. My mother was very particular about clothing - it always used to have to go back into the plastic and it used to drive me insane.
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I have said publicly no option should be off the table, but I would certainly take nuclear weapons off the table.
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Academic culture is not merely indifferent to teaching, it is actively hostile to it.
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In a sense, the god we trust politically is a slightly different god than the one we bring into the fray when we enter a rock concert. One of the things I can say with absolute conviction is that I worship that god.
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We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
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Film is like a casserole. Everybody is thrown into a pot, and we're all in it together.
