Quote

I'm not what you'd call a fearless type of person.

Jon Ronson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jon Ronson
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: May 10
Documentary Filmmaker
Film Director
Journalist
Radio Personality
Screenwriter
Writer
Cardiff
Wales
Persons
Person
Fearless
Type
Call

More quotes by Jon Ronson

Image
In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble.
Jon Ronson
Image
Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make me a neurotic person. And these adventures are my way of trying to make sense of that.
Jon Ronson
Image
It's not a good idea to define the boundaries of normality by tearing apart people who are outside of it.
Jon Ronson
Image
But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me.
Jon Ronson
Image
I have panicked unnecessarily in all four corners of the globe.
Jon Ronson
Image
Twitter wanted to become a more egalitarian justice system, but instead it became a draconian one.
Jon Ronson
Image
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
Image
You can say anything to David Icke and he will accept it and put it into his ideology.
Jon Ronson
Image
I am the neurological opposite of a psychopath, in that I feel anxious almost all the time. It must be great to not constantly feel like you’ve got someone living inside your face, shooting you with a mini Taser.
Jon Ronson
Image
My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now.
Jon Ronson
Image
Most goat-related military activity is still highly classified.
Jon Ronson
Image
We want to see ourselves as curious and open-minded and smart and understanding things in terms of context and nuance, but when someone tries to do that in the midst of a shaming they're turned on.
Jon Ronson
Image
Of course there are people who would like to eat breakfast without the screams of toddlers all around them, but those people should get over themselves and stop being stuck up and idiotic.
Jon Ronson
Image
The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche.
Jon Ronson
Image
It is an awful lot harder, Tony told me, to convince people you're sane than it is to convince them you're crazy.
Jon Ronson
Image
Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium.
Jon Ronson
Image
No, people back home don't realize why there is this kind of need for heroes in America at the moment. People in Britain don't really understand what's going on here. They don't understand why Camp X-ray exists.
Jon Ronson
Image
We were creating a world where the smartest way to survive is to be bland.
Jon Ronson
Image
I write funny nonfiction adventure books about crazy, serious worlds.
Jon Ronson
Image
We're living in post-nuance online times.
Jon Ronson