#reaction

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. ↗

— Henry Adams

#american society #anything #flat #into #pond

It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in. ↗

— Julian Assange

#abusers #always #bad #believe #controversy

We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of blackness and race is simply reactionary. Africans didn't walk around Africa being black and proud, they walked around proud. ↗

— Saul Williams

#around #because #being #black #blackness

It definitely seems like we are connecting with people, which is nice, because I've had a lot of music do the same for me. It's not like I don't I understand why we get the reactions we do. ↗

— Jon Crosby

#connecting #definitely #get #had #i

To me the goal of comedy is to just laugh, which is a really high hearted thing, visceral connection and reaction. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#connection #goal #hearted #high #just

There are so many reactions to art that make sense to me - but 'ick' means something. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#make #many #me #means #reactions

It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph. ↗

— Robert Frank

#instantaneous #oneself #photograph #produces #reaction

I'm still astounded by some people's reaction to things I consider quite normal. ↗

— Jean Paul Gaultier

#consider #i #normal #people #quite

The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#beat #civilized #common #create #events

If you make decisions based upon people's reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices. ↗

— Heath Ledger

#boring #choices #decisions #judgments #make