Teenagers talk about the idea of having each other’s ‘full attention.’ They grew up in a culture of distraction. They remember their parents were on cell phones when they were pushed on swings as toddlers. Now, their parents text at the dinner table and don’t look up from their BlackBerry when they come for end-of-school day pickup. Sherry Turkle Read Quote
I was mindful that clothes, objects and items had all been designed and manufactured. Thought had gone into those processes, so to mindlessly treat everything without care or as disposable was disrespectful. Things should be valued. Konnie Huq Read Quote
Women of color have always been kind of boxed in by the idea that the more you talk about the misogyny of your own community, the more you make that community look bad. Mona Eltahawy Read Quote
With supernatural type of movies, if they’re not done correctly, there are a lot of actors just running and screaming and looking scared for an hour and forty, and that can get a bit old. Robert Sheehan Read Quote
I’m not trying to erase my culture or my faith, I’m trying to be the best version of myself, and it’s really hard. I don’t think I’m right, I don’t claim to be correct, I’m just trying to figure it out and figure out a balance. Ramy Youssef Read Quote
The instant the Government was organized, at the very first Congress, the Northern States evinced a general desire and purpose to use it for their own benefit, and to pervert its powers for sectional advantage, and they have steadily pursued that policy to this day. Robert Toombs Read Quote
Many people say, ‘Your dad was so ahead of his time,’ and he was a feminist in the truest sense, but he’s very much for opportunities for all people… To him, a soccer player is a soccer player. Jill Ellis Read Quote
Today, the biggest bottleneck to the growth of a corporation is availability of good talent. N. R. Narayana Murthy Read Quote
That’s my curse, I see the politics within these things and so I don’t say yes to them. Alex Cox Read Quote
