Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
Edmund BurkePeople are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they’re much more open.
Paulo CoelhoI’m not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.
Anthony BourdainThink about what people are doing on Facebook today. They’re keeping up with their friends and family, but they’re also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They’re connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It’s almost a disadvantage if you’re not on it now.
Mark ZuckerbergThere are a lot of good women in New York.
DrakeMy childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
J. Robert OppenheimerWhat I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they’re not discriminated on the job.
Barack ObamaI have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.
Edmund HillarySometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
David ByrneNobody has ever convinced me that race is real.
Alice WalkerIf I wasn’t Bob Dylan, I’d probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.
Bob DylanAll partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
Alice WalkerI spent more time on dark ships in danger zones than any other woman in the world.
Elizabeth KennyI don’t look at myself as a commodity, but I’m sure a lot of people have.
Marilyn MonroeMy goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person.
Mark ZuckerbergI’m German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn’t exist any more.
Karl LagerfeldSEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.
Jocko WillinkI grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I’ve never even been to the ‚hood. Not that there’s anything wrong with the ‚hood.
Beyonce KnowlesPeople think I’m a celebrity. I’m not a celebrity.
Conor McGregorI don’t see myself as a pop artist. Like, when you hear ‚pop,‘ you’re like, ‚Oh, bubblegum, jumpy little girly stuff,‘ and I feel like, ‚Uh-uh. That’s not me.‘
Billie EilishI’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.
Angelina JolieI think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don’t ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It’s like, ‚Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.‘
Taylor SwiftWe need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.
Barack ObamaMany people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.
Helen KellerThe best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert FrostWhat I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.
Marilyn MonroeI started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn’t.
Kurt CobainCreating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‚studies‘ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‚studies‘ are about propaganda rather than serious education.
Thomas SowellI think the whole stigma of ‚black movies‘ is slowly being lost. When you look at movies like ’12 Years A Slave,‘ to ‚The Butler,‘ to ‚The Best Man,‘ to ‚Ride Along,‘ to even ‚Think Like a Man‘ from last year – these movies are just good movies.
Kevin HartIf you deny people their own voice, you’ll have no idea of who they were.
Alice WalkerUnfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.
Dan QuayleAmerica had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
Oscar WildeThrough my films I’m eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there, but I’m slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I’m 85, I’ll look back and say, ‚All right, that about sums it up.‘
Adam SandlerGetting recognized is insane. It just blows my mind. Like, someone who you don’t know at all can just be like, ‚Oh my God – are you Billie?‘
Billie EilishI think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, ‚What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?‘
Brian EnoI believe that there are many herbs and many trees that are worth much in Europe for dyes and for medicines; but I do not know, and this causes me great sorrow. Arriving at this cape, I found the smell of the trees and flowers so delicious that it seemed the pleasantest thing in the world.
Christopher ColumbusWe talk about this concept of openness and transparency as the high-level ideal that we’re moving towards at Facebook. The way that we get there is by empowering people to share and connect. The combination of those two things leads the world to become more open.
Mark ZuckerbergSometimes I wonder if I’m as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.
Stephen HawkingWe still have many neighborhoods that are racially identified. We still have many schools that even though the days of state-enforced segregation are gone, segregation because of geographical boundaries remains.
Ruth Bader GinsburgWhen you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.
George CarlinOur diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.
Angelina JolieThe country would be a lot better off if we stopped having comment sections. And if we got rid of Twitter.
Colin PowellI certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don’t share that belief.
Ruth Bader GinsburgThe feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.
Nikola TeslaThe making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.
James BaldwinEven after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?
Narendra ModiI literally coded Facebook in my dorm room and launched it from my dorm room. I rented a server for $85 a month, and I funded it by putting an ad on the side, and we’ve funded ever since by putting ads on the side.
Mark ZuckerbergGoing to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature’s forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.
John MuirI hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one ‚race‘ – the human race – and that we are all members of it.
Margaret AtwoodEveryone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.
Angelina JolieLand on Mars, a round-trip ticket – half a million dollars. It can be done.
Elon MuskWe don’t want to promote any system that treats the fact that an individual is LGBT as a personality disorder. And anything that perpetuates that perception is harmful – not only to that member of the community but the entire community.
Kamala HarrisWhat good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can’t I just be an ordinary woman?
Marilyn MonroeIt’s always interesting about God because it’s like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.
Wayne DyerYour life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.
Russell M. NelsonI’ve been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I’m driving, I hear I’m a moron. I like being a moron.
Adam SandlerI never have really become accustomed to the ‚John.‘ Nobody ever really calls me John… I’ve always been Duke or Marion or John Wayne. It’s a name that goes well together, and it’s like one word – John Wayne.
John WayneWe are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.
Greta ThunbergWhat is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you’re hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.
Terry PratchettWe’re a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we’re all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that’s a marvelous thing.
Billy Graham