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If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#music #real #real world #related #see

But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#any #everyone #extremist #get #i

I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a lot in academia, of course, and also different sorts of journalism too - you're going to sweep under the carpet the facts that don't suit your thesis. And I think that happens quite a lot in the courtroom, for instance. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#academia #also #carpet #course #courtroom

Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#enjoy #golf #grass #greens #grow

Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible. ↗

— Jon Ronson

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Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound. ↗

— Jon Ronson

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Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#end #five #lives #more #most

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#another #anything #could #else #love

Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#hands #head #out #preclude #rule

Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#combination #event #figure #figure skating #good