Kristin Bauer van Straten Quotes

One lesson I got from Gandhi, 'Be the change you want to see,' haunts me. I just feel like I can't keep stomping around pointing the finger at BP when I am supporting the oil industry with my very own dollars and actions by buying their products, helping to pay their mortgage - plastic is from oil... polyester, shower curtains.

Kristin Bauer van Straten

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I'm a terrible golfer.

Jimmy Kimmel

TerribleGolfer

Even though everybody's lives are different, in general we're all human beings, and we go through the same things: disappointments, the pleasures of life, life and death. That's always been a really big part of the show to me, making sure the audience feels connected, and that carries through to the album.

Joan Jett

LifeDeathMeLife And DeathGoBig

Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.

John Berger

FutureManEthicsChoicesPriorities

We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.

John McCain

TruthHideForeverCannotOurselves

As others have recently suggested, the term 'gamer' is no longer useful as an identity because games are for everyone. These days, even my mom spends an inordinate amount of time gaming on her iPad. So I'll take a cue from my younger self and say I don't care about being a 'gamer,' but I sure do love video games.

Anita Sarkeesian

LoveTimeIdentityMomVideo Games

I loved the idea of recording. The idea of sound-on-sound-recording captured me as a young kid, and once I realized what it was I had an epiphany. Before I was even playing the guitar, I would create these lists of how I would record things and overdub them, like Led Zeppelin song, 'I could put this guitar on this track...' and so on.

Steve Vai

MeSongGuitarLovedCreateYoung

I think one of the most exciting things about the whole digital side of publishing is that it eventually allows you to operate at any length. That also means shorter stuff, too.

Robin Sloan

ThinkYouDigitalSideThingsStuff

Social media is something of a double-edged sword. At its best, social media offers unprecedented opportunities for marginalized people to speak and bring much needed attention to the issues they face. At its worst, social media also offers 'everyone' an unprecedented opportunity to share in collective outrage without reflection.

Roxane Gay

OpportunityReflectionBestPeople

I couldn't recommend more that people put themselves in a situation where they can see a lot of work that they admire, and for free.

Mike Birbiglia

WorkPeopleFreeSituationAdmire

I like to smile when I am playing because I try to show people that I am enjoying myself, and I think Ronaldinho did the same.

Philippe Coutinho

SmileMyselfI AmPeopleThinkTry

There have been top supermodels in the past that weren't as tall as the industry demands, like fashion icon Kate Moss.

Tyra Banks

PastFashionTallTopIndustryMoss

There's a lot of surplus rage from the '60s that was never really worked through publicly. I think a lot of that rage still exists, and I think you see that when John McCain runs a commercial that beats up on Hillary Clinton's earmark for a Woodstock museum.

Rick Perlstein

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