A Quote by Jon Ronson

It's not a good idea to define the boundaries of normality by tearing apart people who are outside of it.

Jon Ronson

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Jon Ronson
Welsh - Journalist
Born: May 10, 1967

I was beginning to understand something about normality. Normality wasn't normal. It couldn't be. If normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone. They could sit back and let normality manifest itself. But people-and especially doctors- had doubts about normality. They weren't sure normality was up the job. And so they felt inclined to give it a boost.

Jeffrey Eugenides

There's a way about it: tearing people down, but not tearing them apart.

Michael Shanks

Theres a way about it: tearing people down, but not tearing them apart.

Michael Shanks

I look at my Twitter feed sometimes, and there's just people tearing apart other performers.

Megan Hilty

There's this homogenization, this big sucking motion in dominant society, to absorb all the disparate elements that define the margin or define the culture or define those who are thrust outside the status quo.

Todd Haynes

Here's the fascinating part, call it the golden shoulder: We have no idea in advance who the great contributors are going to be. We know that there's a huge cohort of people struggling outside the boundaries of the curated, selected few, but we don't know who they are.

Seth Godin

Normality wasn't normal. It couldn't be. If normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone. They could sit back and let normality manifest itself.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Sometimes you have to go outside your boundaries. You have to jump over that fence, but I always felt very comfortable (in my jobs) because I worked with some good people.

Bob Hartley

You're tearing me apart!

James Dean

To me the seventies represent normality, and, of course, it is a normality that is now anachronistic.

Quentin S. Crisp

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.

Douglas Adams

In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning.

Malcolm Gladwell

Most of the people that I've worked with when shooting films that I really respect, there is a point which you do become obsessed in a good way. And because it's a collaborative medium, you're not by yourself in a room tearing your hair out, you're in a room with a bunch of people. And we're all tearing our hairs out, or trying to get something right, or caring deeply about something. But that's fun.