"The whole world has become a crowded theater. You could say something here in New York and have it be heard in Afghanistan and potentially trigger riots and it may be something that to you was innocent or was in jest or was satirical and it's taken out of context. I mean, a joke, a tweet or a blog post can make it halfway around the world before the context gets its boots on."

-- Suzanne Nossel

#Taken Quotes #Mean Quotes #World Quotes

“I like to employ the power of no. We all want to say yes, because with yes comes so much opportunity, but with the power of no comes focus and engagement.”
“To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.”
“Everything that I write will be signed with my name.”

Source : Elinor Glyn (2016). “The Reflections of Ambrosine”, p.4, Read Books Ltd
“I'm basically different things to different people. If it's a guy, I'm-a probably have my guard up because it's a street rule that when men come around that I don't know, I just immediately throw shade on them. But I don't associate with fellas all that much; if it's a girl - a beautiful girl - I be nice.”
“violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.”
“Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.”
“Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.”
“The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space.”

Source : Letter to F.W Weber, 1950.

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