#messages

I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#being #being smart #confidence #feel #get

People would react to books by authors like James and Austen almost on a gut level. I think it was not so much the message, because the best authors do not have obvious messages. These authors were disturbing to my students because of their perspectives on life. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#austen #authors #because #best #books

I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#avoid #different #different things #doing #had

In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques. ↗

— Art Linkletter

#drop #groove #half #light #messages

Republicans use think tanks to come up with a lot of their messages. The think tanks are the single worst, most undisciplined example of communication I've ever seen. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#communication #ever #example #i #lot

I'm not a guy who takes films for strong political messages. ↗

— Ewan McGregor

#guy #i #messages #political #strong

I have great luck. I'm used to people dying and going away. Not used to it exactly - but I expect it. Like, whenever people go off on a trip, I save their phone messages because I think they might die. ↗

— Rose McGowan

#because #die #dying #exactly #expect

I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#aspects #behavior #bring #dark #extreme

My parents offered me the idea of ceilinglessness. There was no limit in terms of what was possible; no messages sent to me to say that I couldn't do anything. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#i #idea #limit #me #messages

My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me. ↗

— Ed Balls

#because #come #me #messages #mobile