Jon Ronson Quotes

Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with childhood bipolar disorder in the U.S.

Jon Ronson

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ChildhoodYouTyrannySometimesOnly

The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.

Jesse Owens

BondWorthHumanAnythingOnly

I'm completely obsessed with Andrew Smith's 'Winger.' A great, hilarious, and moving story.

John Corey Whaley

GreatMovingStoryObsessedSmith

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

John Ruskin

ManPeopleWorldPriceAnything

It is not a Pandora's box that science opens; it is, rather, a treasure chest. We, humanity, can choose whether or not to take out the discoveries and use them, and for what purpose.

John Sulston

SciencePurposeHumanityChooseBox

You can make something big when young that will carry you through life. Look at all the big startups like Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. They were all started by very young people who stumbled on something of unseen value. You'll know it when you hit a home run.

Steve Wozniak

LifeHomeValuePeopleYouLook

Sometimes when you do a whole script, you hand it off, and it gets rewritten by a bunch of people, and people don't really get that much of a sense of how funny you can be.

Robert Ben Garant

FunnyPeopleYouSometimesHandGet

I enjoy classic Led Zeppelin.

Robin Wright

EnjoyClassicLed ZeppelinLed

Many hotels, I just sat there and - I call it the silent scream - I don't know why, you just sit there, and tears will just come down, and you'll just sit there for hours, man. There's no place to turn, and when you do turn, who cares? You're just a dumb professional wrestler.

Roddy Piper

ManTearsYouDownPlaceDumb

Much as I like and admire Richard Dawkins, I do think that to call a book 'The God Delusion' is very worrying because the title implies that if you don't believe in what I believe then you are 'deluded.' That, I think, is a dangerous concept and one that is unlikely to win hearts and minds.

Robert Winston

GodWinBookBelieveThinkYou

I have never cheated anybody out of a victory, I have worked hard for every single race that I have won.

Lizzie Armitstead

VictoryRaceNeverHardSingleOut

The thing that was fascinating and frustrating about Pac was that he clearly knew better than to go down the gangster road that he went down. Pac knew - and he was right - that thug energy could be redirected into fearless positivity.

Cheo Hodari Coker

FearlessRoadEnergyGangsterBetter

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Thomas Carlyle

ThoughtParentDeed

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