Joan Blades Quotes

People think of us as an information distributor because that's how they relate to the Internet. But most of the time people already have pretty well established opinions.

Joan Blades

Recitation: by Male by Female

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TimePeopleThinkInternetOpinions

When a parent says about a book, 'That's not my child's world,' I remind them of the future. Social fluency will be the new currency of success. Not experiencing diversity challenges our kids' future in the global work force. It handicaps them from making America and the world more livable and just.

Jewell Parker Rhodes

WorkSuccessFutureDiversityChild

The Internet offers opportunities that are more unique than ever before. With TV, I know I'm making 22 minutes; I know there's a commercial in the middle. With the Internet, no one knows anything. No rules.

Jerry Seinfeld

OpportunitiesInternetUniqueRules

Sadly, bird illustration has always been an under-appreciated art.

John Burnside

ArtBirdAlwaysBeenIllustration

Wonderbra is such an iconic brand with strong design values and great sense of humour.

Jenny Packham

GreatStrongBrandDesignValues

The year my mom worked as a secretary at an apparel company in midtown, she would often come home in tears because she had mistakenly called her boss by another coworker's name. 'You know how it is,' my father said, 'they all look the same. It's not your mom's fault. There's just no telling them apart. Same high nose and deep-set eyes.'

Jenny Zhang

FatherHomeEyesBossMomTears

During my time at Juve, I didn't score more than 20 goals a year, but I won every title except the Champions League. I've scored 15 or 16 goals, and I've lifted titles, and other strikers have scored 35 and haven't won anything.

Alvaro Morata

GoalsTimeYearChampionsMoreThan

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Tom Stoppard

BetterKnowNothingUselessThings

I grew up in Altadena, California.

Martine Syms

CaliforniaUpGrew

Our forefathers got it; they got it, man. They took godly principles and they put them into action, and they developed our Constitution - the land of freedom where each man is accountable and responsible for his actions.

Luke Scott

FreedomManActionConstitutionLand

I never thought I would really like to be on television, and the story of me getting into it was quite lucky, really, just a series of chance encounters. So I am not exactly putting myself across as a celebrity, although people might perceive me that way.

Louis Theroux

MyselfI AmPeopleMeChanceStory

Only in my 40s did I become a person whose heart lifts whenever he hears a grosbeak singing or a towhee calling, and who hurries out to see a golden plover that's been reported in the neighbourhood, just because it's a beautiful bird, with truly golden plumage, and has flown all the way from Alaska.

Jonathan Franzen

HeartBeautifulBirdSingingPerson

I don't think you can know too many smart people. I don't think you should ever stop meeting people.

Christie Hefner

SmartPeopleThinkYouMeetingStop

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