Social Quotes - Page 37

• My mom was a social worker. I had a pretty good idea of what the authorities can do when a parent's not around.

  Leigh Newman

  Mom, Ideas, Parent

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Social media has been an incredible tool to connect to my fan base, and collaborate with people around the world. Some of my biggest breaks have come through people hearing my music on the Internet and then contacting me through social media.

  Wendy Starland

  Media, People, World

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• Country must confront what he called institutional racism. [We should] create a country which provides economic, social and environmental justice for all.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Justice For All, Racism

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think e-mail and social media and all that has made me feel way less isolated than ever before.

  Victoria Chang

  Thinking, Media, Mail

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Though it does seem like I have written an immense amount of work, over the years I have pushed the pause button. I have poems that I haven't sent out for publication, mostly based on political/social issues.

  Denise Duhamel

  Years, Issues, Political

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In the age of social media, you have the selfie and some people - not always young people - seem obsessed with showing the world what their face looks like almost every day. Just like some people are obsessed with showing the world what their dinner looks like. It's beyond my understanding to be honest.

  Derek Ridgers

  Media, People, Understanding

  Source: therumpus.net

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• China reformed its state sector before, in the late 1990s. Tens of millions were laid off at the time. That was scary and we had warnings of social unrest. But it did not happen. Instead, there was a restructuring in our economic system. I am not sure if China will follow a Western playbook in this respect.

  Zhang Xin

  Social Unrest, Scary, Warning

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• On the one hand the world is getting more integrated and we should not dismiss social values as "Western" when they are actually modern values. On the other hand, individual countries have their own history and their own evolution. Trade unions, for example, don't play the same role in China as they do in Europe or the US.

  Zhang Xin

  Country, Hands, Europe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It is worthwhile to engage in something that is close to one's heart. I had a scholarship. So if I donate money to give brilliant Chinese students an opportunity to study abroad, then this embodies everything I believe in: education, globalization, social mobility. I am an example of social mobility.

  Zhang Xin

  Believe, Heart, Opportunity

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In the old days, you lived in one neighborhood, you knew all your neighbors and your daughter married the guy next door. That was social and economic progress. That model is gone now. We also had a world order that was fraught but fairly stable.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Daughter, Doors, Order

  "Black Ancestry Matters on 'Finding Your Roots'". Interview with Alexandra Phanor-Faury, www.ebony.com. January 26, 2016.

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• I go to social media, check out my granddaughter's new boyfriend, but the Department of Homeland Security can't figure out they need to be tracking they jihadi web sites?

  Carly Fiorina

  Media, Granddaughter, Needs

  "Fiorina: Trump is a Clinton Christmas gift, I'm the lump of coal; US doing enough to defeat ISIS?". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 20, 2015.

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• In my own work I am invested in art as a way to break through impasses, whether those impasses are personal, social, or political.

  Jill Soloway

  Art, Break Through, Political

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The internet, like social media, seems to me to depend on how you use it, where you spend your time on it. I used to be quite anti-social media, but I can see now that it can be a good tool for artists, a way for us to speak to each other outside of standard economies and across languages and borders.

  Micheline Aharonian Marcom

  Artist, Media, Borders

  Interview with Greg Gerke, therumpus.net. December 05, 2011.

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• I began to firmly change my mind when I saw how young Egyptians used Facebook, for example, to begin to coalesce their social justice movement in their country. And a good Iranian friend of mine showed me how also in Iran, till the government shut it down, much was communicated via social media. So I'm not against. I use the internet regularly to do research. It's great but you have to use your discernment, especially if researching content.

  Micheline Aharonian Marcom

  Country, Government, Media

  Interview with Greg Gerke, therumpus.net. December 05, 2011.

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• Globalization is a complex issue, partly because economic globalization is only one part of it. Globalization is greater global closeness, and that is cultural, social, political, as well as economic.

  Amartya Sen

  Issues, Political, Economic Globalization

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• We live in a world where there is a need for pluralistic institutions and for recognizing different types of freedom, economic, social, cultural, and political, which are interrelated.

  Amartya Sen

  Political, Different, Needs

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• I was a social recluse for most of my life, and so a lot of relationships I've been in have been formed online. I met my first boyfriend online at 15, which culminated in me running away to San Francisco to be with him.

  Marie Calloway

  Running, San Francisco, Firsts

  Source: therumpus.net

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• As for not getting things right: I constantly rerun social situations/conversations I experience/have throughout my head, and I'm always writing them down in notebooks or in word documents/the Internet. I feel like these habits and a generally good memory of people/the interactions I have with them (due to studying people having always been my main interest in life) have lead me to being very accurate in things I write in stories/essays.

  Marie Calloway

  Notebook, Memories, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I kind of like social media, and I like hearing from people. I don't like the ugly stuff, but there are some people - smart people - who have a very different perspective, and I'll get a backlash from them. And this isn't necessarily a bad thing.

  Paul Bloom

  Smart, Media, People

  "Paul Bloom: The Trouble With Empathy". Interview with Allyson Kirkpatrick, www.guernicamag.com. February 1, 2016.

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• I have two teenage sons, and they're both surviving, thriving, and having a great time, and they're always on social media.

  Paul Bloom

  Teenage, Son, Media

  "Paul Bloom: The Trouble With Empathy". Interview with Allyson Kirkpatrick, www.guernicamag.com. February 1, 2016.

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• I'd read an enormous amount but had spent so much time in my own head that I didn't have extensive social skills. Suddenly I was in this world where I was surrounded by these incredibly polished and wealthy kids who had gone to prep schools, and I felt daunted by them. I don't think people were aware of how full of anxiety I was... For a long time I felt like I was living in a place where I shouldn't have been.

  Dan Chaon

  School, Kids, Thinking

  Interview with Molly Antopol, therumpus.net. September 15th, 2009.

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• The imperial projects will continue, Wall Street will be unimpeded in its malfeasance and criminal activity, social programs will continue to be cut, maybe not at the same speed as under a Republican Administration, but it's all headed in the same direction.

  Chris Hedges

  Wall, Cutting, Criminals

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• Social networking, I believe, has completely changed the relationship between band-members and fans.

  Beau Bokan

  Believe, Fans, Networking

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• Keep up with social media. Twitter and Facebook are both great ways to get your music out, especially internationally.

  Dia Frampton

  Media, Way, Twitter And Facebook

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• People when they're growing up they just want to fit in, there are a lot of social pressures on young people today to kind of have it all figured out and know what they want to do, know who they are straight away and I've always tried to embrace that sense of pressure, but I've got people around me that do as well.

  Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

  Growing Up, People, Social Pressure

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