If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can detect oppression and inequality even where the apparent victims see nothing wrong.
Mum had a Charles-and-Diana wedding mug that had survived longer than the marriage itself. Mum had worshipped Princess Di and frequently lamented her passing. "Gone," she would say, shaking her head in disbelief. "Just like that. All that exercise fo...
More often than not, we want him to have fairy wings and spread fairy dust and shine like a precious little star, dispensing nothing but good times on everyone, like some kind of hybrid of Tinker Bell and Aladdin’s Genie. But the God of the Bible, ...
Andrew: [after Claire has given Allison a makeover] What happened to you? Allison Reynolds: Why? Claire did it... What's wrong? Andrew: Nothing's wrong... it's just so different, you know? I can see your face. Allison Reynolds: Is that good or bad? A...
-I don’t want you to do anything. -Well then I won’t do anything. -Thank you. -Doing nothing, it’s the least I can do.
Everything around me affirmed there was nothing else I could do – yet everything inside me cried that I was not doing enough.
Acting was truly all that I ever wanted to do. I've always acted in plays and sang and played music, and you get to a certain age and think there's nothing else that you'd rather do.
Why do we say ‘the cockles of your heart’?” David said. “Nothing to do with whelks, I suppose.
But that is what these people do - the Steves of this world - they all try and make something out of nothing. and they all do it for themselves.
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
If you can do nothing else, do whatever is in your power to make the people in your life feel completely unashamed of who they are.
I know a way to stay friends forever, There's really nothing to it, I tell you what to do, And you do it.
Acting is one of those things that anybody can do because no one can learn it, but only a few people can really do because it's nothing you can learn.
If your education, talent and capacity can do nothing; your body can do lots of things.
There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.
Confidence is nothing more than believing in yourself, and believing in yourself is about doing the things you once didn’t believe you could do
I come from the kind of family where work is work; my parents always taught me that it's better to be doing something than sitting around doing nothing.
Unending joy is actually closer to us than our own skin, and there is nothing we have to do or get or be to experience it. All we have to do is stop driving it away.
There's nothing like doing a show at home. When you do a show in Chicago, there's just a certain love that you don't feel anywhere else; it's like home base.
Scandinavia is boring. People living there apparently have little to do. And as European history teaches, when there is nothing much to do, you may as well amuse yourself by attacking the Jews.
All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
