Jonah Peretti Quotes

It's important that all my friends have verified Twitter accounts. The blue checkmark makes me feel comfortable and like I'm friends with a legit, high-quality person. I also prefer friends with ridiculously long usernames.

Jonah Peretti

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• Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Dad

• I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Love
  • Night
  • Food

• I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve.

  

  Washed Out
  • Done
  • Want
  • Past

• Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Experience
  • You
  • Acting

• But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • May
  • Soul
  • Freedom

• Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Never
  • Wanted
  • Mentor

• I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Done
  • Why

• I've always had an interest in doing something that was outside my comfort zone; I had this thing about standing on the edge of the cliff and deciding to jump.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Doing
  • Jump
  • Comfort

• You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • You
  • Cannot
  • Govern

• Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Knowledge
  • Decision
  • Democracy

• Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Death
  • Want
  • Point

• If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Vision

• I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young - people were either villainous or wonderful. They were painted in very bright colours. The bad side of it - and there is a corollary to everything - is that when we get older, we fuss more. I used to despise people who fussed.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Understanding
  • Wonderful

• What's the difference between a personality disorder and a personality? You know? That's what I wanna know!

  

  Parker Posey
  • You
  • Know
  • Personality

• For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Look
  • Wait
  • Diet

• Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Truth
  • Lie
  • Cheat

• Choose to focus your time, energy and conversation around people who inspire you, support you and help you to grow you into your happiest, strongest, wisest self.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • People
  • Time
  • Help

• For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Business
  • War
  • Peace

• If it were true that special favors were given to some of these people because they are my cronies, then they should still be here, and they should be wealthy. But who are these cronies? If there be any cronies in government, point them out, and we will investigate.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • True
  • Government

• When President Hassan Rouhani was elected in Iran in 2013, he welcomed back the far-flung children of Iran. But one by one, they have been arrested and imprisoned upon their return, a fate that has made me increasingly reluctant to risk going back to a homeland I've not seen since 1992.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Children
  • Risk
  • Fate

• Mrs. Pidgeon: That little girl whose mother is in the, um, 'threesome.' Why do you say she's confused about her gender? She seems perfectly normal to me.Sparrow: Mom, she's a boy.Mrs. Pidgeon: Oh. Well then, I'm not quite so worried about that revealing top. I was going to speak to her mother.

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • Why
  • She
  • Mother

• I've been into guns ever since I was a little kid, and the ones that fascinate me most are the black powder guns that people used back in the 17 and 1800s.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Guns
  • Powder Guns

• I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Long
  • Man
  • Emotion

• It's important that all my friends have verified Twitter accounts. The blue checkmark makes me feel comfortable and like I'm friends with a legit, high-quality person. I also prefer friends with ridiculously long usernames.

  

  Jonah Peretti
  • Important
  • Long
  • Friends