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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If your subjects are eternal... they'll survive.
Elliott Erwitt -
There is nobody who doesn't deserve to walk into their local church and have others look them in the eye and understand that we are all in the same position. We are all sinful, flawed, selfish, imperfect people - saved only by the grace of God and the love of Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit.
Brian Houston -
Our Congress is the finest body of men money can buy.
Morey Amsterdam -
You find the book in the process of doing it. That's the adventure of the job.
Paul Auster -
Yes, and because we grow old we become more and more the stuff our forbears put into us. I can feel his savagery strengthen in me. We think we are so individual and so misunderstood when we are young; but the nature our strain of blood carries is inside there, waiting, like our skeleton.
Willa Cather -
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