Jon Ronson Quotes

We have to understand how the extremists got the way they are. Without that kind of understanding, we'd never really get to know them. I put in nothing about their childhoods. But what I have put in is stuff about the weird symbiotic relationship between us and them.

Jon Ronson

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The saddest thing is that when I sat down to rehearse for the Pixies, I couldn't believe that I had given up something that I loved. Now I hold the drum at night and I want to go to bed with it.

Joey Santiago

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Americans have an expectation that the Postal Service will abide by its well-known, although unofficial, motto - a commitment to deliver.

John M. McHugh

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Once I had seen 'Journey to Italy,' I knew that, even if I were never to make movies, I could make them.

Jean-Luc Godard

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In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.

Stephen Ambrose

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I'm surprised how easily Don Imus came back. He was off the air for a little while after the 'nappy-headed' comment in 2007, and then he's back as strong as ever.

Steven Gaines

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I've carried a gun for 10 years. I've carried them in the locker room, and nobody really knows about it. I know how to handle myself, and I stow it away where nobody really knows about it.

Luke Scott

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Leaving your hair down to sleep causes friction on your ends between your body heat and the pillow case. Securing the ends away from your body helps preserve your ends.

Jonathan Van Ness

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Boy I could do this forever; I truly enjoy bad guys.

Jonathan Banks

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Barcelona is one of the best teams in the world... so far, nothing has come to me, because if anything comes, it comes to my manager.

Philippe Coutinho

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I couldn't follow the events of September 11 because I was proofreading a novel I'd just completed - on Islam and its quarrel with the West - that I'd promised, six months earlier, to deliver to my editor on September 12, 2001.

Pico Iyer

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I just feel like you should be able to have a respectful work environment, because if you do, you'll be your best self.

Peggy Johnson

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There is no win-win or lose-lose in a situation. Everything is a medium.

Tim Hardaway Jr.

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