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Could a person really make a social contribution through music consciously? I mean, beyond making a person happy to hear the song and more making a social contribution consciously through your music? For me, Stevie Wonder is the paragon of that. And I didn't want to be Stevie Wonder, but I did want to do what he does.
India Arie
Music
Me
Happy
Song
More
Could
Through
He
Beyond
Make
Stevie
Stevie Wonder
Does
Making
Hear
Wonder
Person
Contribution
Did
Want
Mean
Social
Really
Your
I'm in show business, and I'm an entertainer, but I also see myself as an artist doing social and spiritual work.
India Arie
Work
Myself
Spiritual
Business
Entertainer
See
Also
Doing
Artist
Social
Show
Show Business
What I would not do is flaunt my Indianess by wearing a saree to work everyday, because it distracts from the job. So, I would not do that. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Social events are different. If I feel comfortable in a saree for a social event, I wear it.
Indra Nooyi
Work
Events
Job
Everyday
Would
Wear
Wearing
Feel
Comfortable
Because
Different
Romans
Rome
Social
Event
I don't look at Instagram. I don't have much to do with social media.
Iris Apfel
Social Media
Instagram
Look
Social
Much
Media
Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.
Iris Chang
People
Dangerous
Evil
Unleashed
Circumstances
All People
Would
Would-Be
Only
Potential
Almost
Almost All
Which
Social
Certain
When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.
Irvine Welsh
Religion
History
Science
Writing
Reading
Lately
Philosophy
Constantly
Studies
Read
Nonfiction
Been
Cultural
Lot
Quite
Fiction
Social
Loads
I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
Irvine Welsh
You
Business
Writing
First
Young
Research
Think
Other
Find
Degrees
About
Writers
Learn
Because
Sciences
Lot
Get
Trying
Arts
Graduation
Information
Social
Young Writers
Should
Skills
Social Sciences
Even
Necessity
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.
Isabel Allende
Death
Freedom
Loyalty
Me
Justice
Writing
Political
Some
Haunt
Until
Coming
Issues
End
Up
Stories
Interest
Social
Them
Themes
Certain
Social Issues
Keep
Violence
Midwives not only save lives. They are also actors of social change.
Isabella Lovin
Change
Only
Also
Social
Social Change
Actor
Lives
Save
I don't look at 'Vogue' to ask what I'm going to wear. Because it's something on a body too young. I have to look at the social pages to see women my age. To see how Amanda Burden is dressed and say, 'Hmmm. Maybe I should try that.'
Isabella Rossellini
Age
Women
Try
Burden
Young
Too
Say
Wear
See
Dressed
Something
Vogue
Look
Because
How
Amanda
Going
Maybe
Social
Ask
Should
Body
Pages
I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way.
Isabelle Huppert
You
Yourself
Matter
Beginning
Living
Way
Say
Out
More
Know
Make
Becomes
How
Exist
Survive
Want
Social
To Survive
Certain
Certain Way
Function
Actress
Eventually
Ever
Social media has been both damaging and beneficial in terms of how we view our bodies.
Iskra Lawrence
Social Media
Beneficial
Our
Has-Been
Both
Terms
How
Been
Social
Bodies
View
Media
Damaging
I think a lot of people get lost. They start following iconic figures and get drowned in the pool of celebrity. Our society, as we know it, is definitely changing. With social media and cell phones, you freak out when you don't know what's going on.
Israel Broussard
You
Phones
People
Social Media
Lost
Cell Phones
Pool
Think
Society
Changing
Our
Definitely
Out
Freak
Following
Drowned
Know
Lot
Celebrity
Get
Cell
Going
Social
Iconic
Figures
Media
Start
There are three things in life I really don't like: Rice pudding. Social climbers - you know, hang-ons! And the photo shoot!
Ivana Trump
Life
You
Three
Photo
Photo Shoot
Like
Know
Climber
Shoot
Social
Rice
Really
Things
Pudding
Studies have proven that early childhood education returns to society as much as $12 for every dollar invested. Our goal is to identify the most important development opportunities for children five years and younger, providing insight to transform early childhood education from a social policy issue into an economic imperative.
J. B. Pritzker
Education
Opportunities
Important
Every
Society
Our
Insight
Economic
Imperative
Invested
Studies
Development
Most
Identify
Policy
Returns
Proven
Issue
Dollar
Years
Goal
Providing
Five
Childhood
The Most Important
Children
Transform
Social
Younger
Much
Social Policy
Early
Early Childhood
Our growing, robust economy is able to provide the average American citizen access to the best social program there is - a steady job.
J. D. Hayworth
Best
Job
Citizen
Our
Able
Steady
Steady Job
Economy
Robust
Access
Provide
American
American Citizen
Social
Average
Average American
Growing
Program
One of the most interesting social trends of the past 20 years is the rise of residential segregation. So rich are living with rich and poor are living with poor.
J. D. Vance
Past
Rich
Living
Trends
Rise
Segregation
Most
Years
Interesting
Social
Poor
Residential
For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciousness with 'black.' Terms such as 'welfare queen' and 'culture of poverty' became associated uniquely with the social maladies of African Americans in urban ghettos, despite the fact that poor whites outnumbered poor blacks.
J. D. Vance
Culture
Queen
Complicated
Welfare
Political
Black
Poverty
Despite
Our
Blacks
Fact
Outnumbered
Terms
Became
Historical
American
African
African Americans
Urban
Public
Social
Poor
Whites
Reasons
Uniquely
Consciousness
Associate
Associated
Undoubtedly, church fish fries and picnics help build social cohesion. It was at my dad's medium-size evangelical church - my first real exposure to a sustained religious community - that I first saw people of different races and classes worshiping together.
J. D. Vance
Together
People
Church
First
Build
Community
Saw
Religious
Classes
Picnic
Real
Fish
Undoubtedly
Fries
Different
Sustained
Social
Races
Help
Evangelical
Exposure
Dad
Cohesion
My upbringing was so middle-class and repressed. It wasn't until I was placed in Lunghua that I met anyone from any other social strata. When I did, I found them colossally vital.
J. G. Ballard
Met
Other
Vital
Until
Upbringing
Did
Any
Repressed
Anyone
Placed
Social
Them
Strata
Found
Salesforce's Chatter is what convinced me that the company understood what is going on in the enterprise; this was the biggest attraction for me. I saw that Salesforce understands social.
J.P. Rangaswami
Me
Saw
Enterprise
Chatter
Attraction
Understands
Understood
Going
Biggest
Social
Convinced
Company
Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.
J. Philippe Rushton
People
Sometimes
Project
Those
Claimed
Silly
Construct
Argue
Share
Genes
Genome
Because
Human
Just
Common
Race
Social
Races
Who
Shows
Roughly
We all know the power of social media, things can get out there so quickly. We are high-profile footballers, we know that.
Jack Butland
Social Media
Power
Out
High-Profile
Footballers
Know
Quickly
Get
Social
Media
Things
I can put tweets on a map to show who is saying what where, which could be used for marketing or social research.
Jack Dangermond
Saying
Research
Marketing
Could
Put
Where
Which
Social
Used
Show
Who
Tweets
Map
You can follow your favorite company or organization. You can also mix that in with your family and your social network and talk about all these interests in real time. That's the value, not the brand 'Twitter.' Twitter just provides the venue for it.
Jack Dorsey
Time
Family
You
Organization
Value
Twitter
Favorite
Follow
About
Network
Talk
Also
Venue
Real
Mix
Provides
Brand
Just
Real Time
Social
Interests
Your
Company
The Arab Spring, nobody's in the streets demonstrating for radical Islam; they're in the streets with a window of democracy. They want our political reform, our social justice, and our economic opportunity.
Jack Keane
Democracy
Justice
Political
Opportunity
Islam
Spring
Radical
Our
Arab
Arab Spring
Window
Economic
Economic Opportunity
Nobody
Demonstrating
Reform
Want
Social
Social Justice
Radical Islam
Streets
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