“Social messaging is inescapable in the narrative-based work of theatre, film, video games, and television, whether you choose to examine it or ignore it. In order to ignore the social messaging in a work, you have to be able to ignore it and willing to ignore it.”— @bittergertrude, t.co
“When people say “Why do you have to make everything political?’ they’re using “political” to refer to the social messaging that’s inherent in any work about race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, disability, size, class, religious minorities, etc. Let’s cut to the chase: They mean, “I do not wish to ex…”— @bittergertrude, t.co
“My ideal form of entertainment is to have it all going on at once: good music, pretty girls, lots of laughs. I sometimes use a girl singer the way Henny Youngman uses his violin as a bridge between one laugh and the next.”— Benny Hill, nytimes.com
“Taylor Swift isn't obligated to talk about her politics just because you want her to.”— Ian Miles Cheong, twitter.com
“Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away.”— Sarah Kay, ted.com
“Shooting is nothing. Anybody can shoot. The big charge is putting on a show for the crowd.”— Pete Maravich, books.google.com
“I’ve never been lonely. I like myself. I’m the best form of entertainment I have.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.”— Georg C. Lichtenberg, goodreads.com
“Overnight I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one worldwide. I was patient zero of losing a personal reputation on a global scale almost instantaneously.”— Monica Lewinsky, ted.com
“Many people believe that memory works like a recording device. You just record the information, then you call it up and play it back when you want to answer questions or identify images. But decades of work in psychology has shown that this just isn’t true. Our memories are constructive. They’re rec…”— Elizabeth Loftus, ted.com
“What I’ve come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”— Chris Abani, ted.com
“We're all just human beings. We should be guided by that most basic fact, and approach one another with generosity and compassion.”— Megan Phelps-Roper, ted.com
“When we engage people across ideological divides, asking questions helps us map the disconnect between our differing points of view.”— Megan Phelps-Roper, ted.com
“Assuming ill motives almost instantly cuts us off from truly understanding why someone does and believes as they do.”— Megan Phelps-Roper, ted.com
“Those are the [moments] that make you feel that reality TV can actually change lives and inspire people.”— Scott Freeman, buzzfeed.com
“Whenever you check for a new post on Instagram or whenever you go on The New York Times to see if there's a new thing, it's not even about the content. It's just about seeing a new thing. You get addicted to that feeling.”— Aziz Ansari, gq.com
“I was reading all this Trump stuff, and it doesn't feel like we're reading news for the reason we used to, which was to get a better sense of what's going on in the world and to enrich yourself by being aware. It seems like we're reading wrestling rumors. It's like reading about what happened on Mon…”— Aziz Ansari, gq.com