Jon Ronson Quotes
In the early days of Twitter, it was like a place of radical de-shaming. People would admit shameful secrets about themselves, and other people would say, 'Oh my God, I'm exactly the same.' Voiceless people realized that they had a voice, and it was powerful and eloquent.Jon Ronson
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Some women think that if the look this season is minis, they have to wear minis. If you don't have great legs, there are plenty of alternatives.
Ralph Lauren -
Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
Fetty Wap -
I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
Zoe Saldana -
For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
Caitlyn Jenner -
Brain cells are normally not sensitive to light. So by introducing light-sensitive proteins into specific types of neurons, we can now selectively control that specific type of neuron by shining light in the brain.
Feng Zhang -
Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
Ted Deutch
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
Nancy Gibbs -
Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
Maggie Gyllenhaal -
Our best thoughts come from others.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
Jackie Cooper -
I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
Rachel Platten -
Republicans have never been good at public relations.
Tammy Bruce
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In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.
Maggie Gallagher -
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
I don't think badly of or oppose having plastic surgery. I once seriously thought of it, but I decided to take my appearance as it is.
Park Shin-hye -
One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
Gabrielle Roy -
I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.
Nancy Gibbs
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We must reinforce argument with results.
Booker T. Washington -
I help design my own tennis clothes.
Maria Sharapova -
Your future shines bright - find your purpose and go for it. Starting tomorrow, you can change the world.
Gabrielle Giffords -
Am I prepared to let God grip me by His power and do a work in me that is worthy of Himself? Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God's idea of what He wants to do for me, and He has to get me into the attitude of mind and spirit where at any cost I will let Him sanctify me wholly.
Oswald Chambers -
I set pretty high expectations for myself,and I hold myself to a pretty high standard.
Jimmy Garoppolo -
In the early days of Twitter, it was like a place of radical de-shaming. People would admit shameful secrets about themselves, and other people would say, 'Oh my God, I'm exactly the same.' Voiceless people realized that they had a voice, and it was powerful and eloquent.
Jon Ronson