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JON KATZ Lifetime dogs intersect with our lives with particular impact; they're dogs we love in especiall... JON KATZ Most Americans acquire dogs impulsively and for dubious reasons: as a Christmas gift for the kids. B... JON KATZ There is no evidence that an animal can take on the sophisticated task of deciding to end his life a... JON KATZ When I wrote about media and technology, I had a lot of lonely, even intimate book talks. Since writ... JON KATZ I'm one of those people who has always struggled with emotions and revealing them. When my dog O... JON KATZ Kids leave us and go off on their own lives. Family members tell us what they think of us. Animals c... JON KATZ When an animal dies, it gives you the chance to love another animal. That's an insightful and pr... JON KATZ It is possible to take something beautiful and lasting out of the heart-wrenching experience of seei... JON KATZ A good breeder or experienced rescue agency wants you to prove that you'll be a capable caretake... JON KATZ Taking responsibility and having faith in your own judgment will help you make good choices and deci... JON KATZ When you write about animals, of course, you are really writing about the people who love and live w... JON KATZ The Perfect Dog is an enticing fantasy pooch. It's the dog that instantly learns to pee outdoors... JON KATZ Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life... JON KATZ My goats are not contemplative, accepting, or introspective. They are the Greek chorus of my farm, s... JON KATZ There is no evidence that dogs have the kind of complex emotional lives and value systems that we do... JON KATZ I'm always happy when people choose to get another dog because it's a healthy and healing th... JON KATZ I think of animals more as spirits that come and go. They enter our lives at a particular time and t... JON KATZ It's important to remember that the animals are not grieving with us. They're very accepting... JON KATZ Why is it that if you take advantage of a corporate tax break you're a smart businessman, but if... JON STEWART The two biggest things that translate from the pitching mound to hunting and fishing are patience an... JON LESTER One gets the impression that Elvis Presley does what his business advisors think will be most profit... JON LANDAU The best thing is to go public only when you're absolutely sure that's the right move for th... JON ORINGER That's the fun of going to a high school reunion: it's seeing the people who you were close ... JON HURWITZ Presently, the Commission for Commemorating 350 Years of American Jewish History has been brought ab... JON PORTER There is a lack of talent in technology, and we need to be encouraging kids in school to learn how t... JON ORINGER Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Po... JON KATZ I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house... JON STEWART When you get together with childhood friends, for example, there's an intimacy that you instantl... JON TENNEY The Rolling Stones have been the best of all possible worlds: they have the lack of pretension and s... JON LANDAU I'm just thankful I'm surrounded by good people. JON PARDI Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines,... JON SCIESZKA Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and e... JON MEACHAM Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the... JON SECADA I'm a funny guy. You've got to be able to make fun of yourself. We only live once. JON PARDI First of all, this whole idea of this one percent versus the 99 percent, it's a false statistic.... JON LOVITZ If heaven is understood more as God's space on earth than as an ethereal region apart from the e... JON MEACHAM Ten years of character development affords you a lot. You get a chance to dig deeper and deeper and ... JON TENNEY Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n' roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their... JON LANDAU It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything els... JON LANDAU I held top-secret security clearance. JON OSSOFF I don't view any of the hits I've ever written as the climax of my career. They're just ... JON BELLION I worked on Capitol Hill for five years, and I saw how things work and how they do not. I saw the pa... JON OSSOFF It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. Wha... JON MEACHAM I do not believe 'Newsweek' is the only catcher in the rye between democracy and ignorance, ... JON MEACHAM We played Carnegie Hall, and that was one time where I felt... Carnegie Hall as a legendary, very ve... JON BATISTE It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private ... JON MEACHAM