Jon Ronson Quotes
The phrase 'misuse of privilege' is becoming a free pass to tear apart pretty much anybody we choose to. It's becoming a devalued term, and it's making us lose our capacity for empathy and for distinguishing between serious and unserious transgressions.
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No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.
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Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.
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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.
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Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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As a kid, I collected 'Vogue' every month for three years.
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There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
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I was always very academically focused when I was growing up, and music was something for which I really had no preconceptions or expectations for myself or really any rules. It kind of represented, at least for me, a divergent path of creativity and self-discovery.
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I'm not saying 'I have cerebral palsy, pay attention to me.' We all have problems, and we have to figure out how to live our best life.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.
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People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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You don't have to do anything in the movies. You just sit there. Well, that's not entirely true. You do less.
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Jasmine is just the most delicate and beautiful scent.
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My job is what I love. I don't need an escape from it.
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I hate personal competition, and so each time in my career I came in a field where it was highly competitive, I gave up.
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It is because we are predominantly purposeful beings that we are perpetually correcting our immediate sensations. But men are free not to be utilitarianly purposeful. They can sometime be artists, for example. In which case they may like to accept the immediate sensation uncorrected, because it happens to be beautiful.
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P is positive emotion, E is engagement, R is relationships, M is meaning and A is accomplishment. Those are the five elements of what free people chose to do. Pretty much everything else is in service of one of or more of these goals. That's the human dashboard.
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The phrase 'misuse of privilege' is becoming a free pass to tear apart pretty much anybody we choose to. It's becoming a devalued term, and it's making us lose our capacity for empathy and for distinguishing between serious and unserious transgressions.
