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.Jon Ronson
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Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
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.
Malin Akerman -
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.
Naomi Klein -
Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
Ingrid Newkirk -
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Immanuel Kant -
Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
Vanessa Hudgens
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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.
Zach Johnson The Fray -
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.
Ted Cruz -
As a kid, I collected 'Vogue' every month for three years.
Sam Smith -
There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
Walter Becker China Crisis -
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.
Zach Anner -
I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
T Bone Burnett
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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.
Dan Farmer -
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.
Karen Carpenter The Carpenters -
As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
Kangana Ranaut -
You don't have to do anything in the movies. You just sit there. Well, that's not entirely true. You do less.
Sam Shepard -
When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.
H. Rap Brown -
I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it.
Edmund Barton
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I don't type on the computer or edit. Law students who went to law school really just a couple years after I did were brought up all on the computers and that's how they do it, but I was still part of the older school.
John Roberts -
I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
Frances McDormand -
I've been through quite a few hurricanes. I worked in North Carolina, where there's a housing development whose name was Landfall.
James Van Der Beek -
There are as many perfections as there are imperfect men. And while to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.
Oscar Wilde -
I am a great believer rather than the popular scientific way of dealing with things that 'Nothing exists unless you can prove it'. I am pretty much the other way that pretty much anything can exist unless you can disprove it.
Anthony Head -
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.
Jon Ronson