"In high school, I was on the youth advisory council for the Mayor's Office of Los Angeles, and that was kind of my first experience in the bureaucratic system. We tried to get things done, and nobody was really interested in getting anything done."

-- Rashida Jones

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“There are spiders living comfortably in my house while the wind howls outside. They aren't bothering anybody. If I were a fly, I'd have second thoughts, but I'm not, so I don't.”
“I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.”
“Learn from every mistake, because every experience, particularly your mistakes, are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are.”
“The world is a play that would not be worth seeing if we knew the plot.”
“Has knowledge of birth control, so carefully guarded and so secretly practiced by the women of the wealthy class - and so tenaciously withheld from the working women - brought them misery? Rather, has it not promoted greater happiness, greater freedom, greater prosperity and more harmony among them? The women who have this knowledge are the women who have been free to develop, free to enjoy in its best sense, and free to advance the interests of the community.”
“Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have.”
“If we can have drones, we can have brown people on TV, and the world won't end! We need to catch up. We are painfully behind.”

Source : "Gabrielle Union on Diversity on TV: ''We Are Painfully Behind'" by Molly Langmuir, www.elle.com. January 9, 2015.
“Where else is fatness at a premium? The answer is clear. There are two classes of mammals which are liable to accumulate large quantities of adipose tissue - hibernating mammals and aquatic mammals.”

Source : Elaine Morgan (2011). “The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis”, p.69, Souvenir Press

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