When a cocker spaniel bites, it does so as a member of its species; it is never anything but a dog. When… — Tom Junod Animal Copy Share Image
Every celebrity has become a celebrity because of sex and money. But few celebrities like talking about either sex or money; they… — Tom Junod Celebrity Copy Share Image
Character actors like Philip Seymour Hoffman and James Gandolfini have found themselves getting more and more leading roles because they are permitted… — Tom Junod Actor Copy Share Image
We love football because the game of football is better than it has ever been, and is somehow managing to attain, at… — Tom Junod Excellence Copy Share Image
There are only three questions that matter in the kitchen if you're cooking and not baking. The first is how good are… — Tom Junod Cooking Copy Share Image
You learn a lot about America when you own a pit bull. You learn not just who likes your dog; you learn… — Tom Junod America Copy Share Image
Storytellers all, we humans might run out of time even as we triumph over the problem of running out of space. But… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
Our attention spans have become shorter because there are more and more claims upon them - more information, more complexity; more stories,… — Tom Junod Attention Copy Share Image
I met fred rogers in 1998, when 'Esquire' assigned me a story about him for a special issue on American heroes. I… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
We live in a time of short attention spans and long stories. The short attention spans are seen as inevitable, the consequence… — Tom Junod Attention span Copy Share Image
I forget what I wore for my first encounter with Mark Zuckerberg. I know it wasn't a suit - that would have… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
My parents were ambitious people, my father especially, whose entire life was devoted to rising above, but his ambitions were defeated long… — Tom Junod Ambitious Copy Share Image
The premise and promise of Big Data is that there are no stories, only patterns; that the human preference for story is… — Tom Junod Data Copy Share Image
I always looked askance at Pandora and Spotify, regarding both as a passive means of experiencing music; they feed you music they… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
We might accept pit bulls personally, but America still doesn't accept them institutionally, where it counts; indeed, apartment complexes and insurance companies… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
I was a salesman just out of college, traveling all over American roads in the cause of selling handbags to stores that… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
Conservatives still attack feminism with the absurd notion that it makes its adherents less attractive to men; in truth, it is feminism… — Tom Junod Absurd Copy Share Image
And you understand something: that although, like all American eaters, you've been conditioned to think of the entree as the climax of… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
The two biggest meals of your life you don't have to cook and you don't get to eat. The first you don't… — Tom Junod Food Copy Share Image
Music subscriptions will eventually replace music collections because the digital universe is oriented against the idea of ownership - because music ownership… — Tom Junod Internet Copy Share Image
I never met Lou Reed, never was one of those journalists lucky enough to be the object of his derision, contempt, condescension,… — Tom Junod Contempt Copy Share Image
The suits are as similar as uniforms, and yet you can tell their individual qualities by how they respond to movement -… — Tom Junod Fashion Copy Share Image
The fact is, you can't have Southern friends without eventually wanting to sing with them, and without eventually learning that the only… — Tom Junod Country Copy Share Image
My ten-year-old daughter loves gifts. She loves to give them and she loves to get them. She loves to give them when… — Tom Junod Children Copy Share Image
We live in the golden age of character actors - in an age when actors who have done their time in character… — Tom Junod Actor Copy Share Image
I cook so that there is no absence. I cook so that I am always there, even when I'm gone, even when… — Tom Junod Children Copy Share Image
Music has always enhanced our experience of life on earth by seeming to give us access to something larger than ourselves -… — Tom Junod Experience Copy Share Image
And what makes Bob Dylan stories interesting is that the only person who can decide their outcome is Bob Dylan, so you… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
Most people are hungry, therefore they eat. I am hungry, therefore I cook. Since my senior year in college, when I moved… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
It is insufficient to say that my experience as a bully haunts me. Rather, my experience as a bully has been fundamental… — Tom Junod Bully Copy Share Image
I remember George Jones singing on television, but not any of the songs he sang. What I remember was my visceral reaction… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
We are trained to distinguish between journalism that's short and long, that's responsible and irresponsible, that stands for the right values and… — Tom Junod Journalism Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan is either the most public private man in the world or the most private public one. He has a reputation… — Tom Junod Being Copy Share Image
Now, I'm fully aware that there is only one figure more pitiable, more ludicrous, more inherently ridiculous than a bad singer who… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
The great character actors are now the actors whose work has the element of ritual sacrifice once claimed by the DeNiros of… — Tom Junod Actor Copy Share Image
Without your data, Google couldn't pursue the dream of trying to figure out what you're really thinking when you're asking a question,… — Tom Junod Asking a question Copy Share Image
There's an easy way to tell who won a fight, whether it occurs in a ring or in a schoolyard. Watch it… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
Ask people who know him for a description of Bob Dylan outside the prerogatives of fame and the obligations of art, and… — Tom Junod Art Copy Share Image
I was not a fan. Moreover, I reveled in not being a fan, as though not being able to tolerate Robin Williams… — Tom Junod Being Copy Share Image
That there is as yet no drug for immortality - or, for that matter, for muscle growth in the infirm - does… — Tom Junod Death Copy Share Image
