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Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.
Patrick Wang
World
Differences
Hostile
Parts
Very
Artistic
Social
The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.
Patrick deWitt
Way
Recognized
Supermarket
Idea
Like
Knowing
Going
Social
Reason
Portland
Policing has never been about public safety: its origins are rooted in social control, the denial of people's human rights, securing the U.S. borders, recapturing escaped, enslaved Africans, and upholding racist, homophobic, and transphobic laws.
Patrisse Cullors
Rights
People
Safety
Denial
Control
Human Rights
Enslaved
Borders
About
Laws
Never
Policing
Been
Escaped
Upholding
Human
African
Public
Social
Rooted
Public Safety
Origins
Homophobic
Funding privatized accounts with Social Security dollars would not only make the program's long term problems worse, but many believe it represents a first step toward undermining the program's fundamental goals.
Patty Murray
Goals
Problems
Long
First
Believe
Worse
Security
Would
Only
Step
Toward
Long-Term
Term
Make
Undermining
First Step
Dollars
Accounts
Represents
Social
Many
Social Security
Fundamental
Funding
Program
Some people are motivated by a need for recognition, some by money, and some by a broad social goal. I start from a different place: from the love of ideas and the urge to put them into motion and see where they might lead.
Paul Allen
Love
People
Money
Some People
Broad
Recognition
See
Some
Lead
Put
Ideas
Motion
Motivated
Goal
Where
Different
Place
Urge
Social
Them
Might
Different Place
Start
Need
Writing one's first novel, getting it sold, and shepherding it through the labyrinths of editing, production, marketing, journalism, and social media is an arduous and nerve-wracking process.
Paul Di Filippo
Writing
Editing
Social Media
First
Sold
Marketing
Arduous
Through
Journalism
Getting
Process
Social
Production
Novel
Media
In 'Batman Beyond,' Terry McGinnis has the responsibility of protecting Gotham City, as well as maintaining a home and social life. He's also got a single mom and a pesky younger brother, which young kids will relate to.
Paul Dini
Life
Home
Mom
Will
Responsibility
Single
Young
Relate
Batman
Kids
City
Brother
He
Maintaining
Beyond
Also
Protecting
Well
Single Mom
Got
Terry
Which
Young Kids
Social
Younger
Younger Brother
Social Life
I don't know if 'Crash' is a good movie or not because I didn't set out to make a movie. Really, what I wanted to do is more of a social experiment.
Paul Haggis
Good
Experiment
Out
Good Movie
More
Know
Make
Because
Movie
Wanted
Crash
Social
Really
Set
Businesses who are members of Businesses for Social Responsibility or the Social Venture Network are internalizing costs on a voluntary basis and therefore raising their costs of doing business, but their competitors are not required to.
Paul Hawken
Business
Responsibility
Members
Network
Costs
Voluntary
Venture
Doing
Social
Required
Who
Businesses
Social Responsibility
Therefore
Basis
Raising
Competitors
The key to WWE's success and longevity is that they are, as modern and as relevant as the company may be in modern social media and platforms and contemporary distribution, the company is still built around old-school promotion. Who are these two fighters? Why are they wrestling? And why should I pay to see it?
Paul Heyman
Success
Key
Social Media
Pay
Relevant
Distribution
Promotion
See
Wrestling
Longevity
Contemporary
Around
WWE
Built
Still
Modern
May
Social
Should
Fighters
Who
Company
Platforms
Media
Why
Two
I don't think I've had any great success in predicting politics or social change, nor have I really tried.
Paul Krugman
Success
Politics
Great
Change
Think
Tried
Had
Great Success
Nor
Any
Predicting
Social
Social Change
Really
For Unilever, investing in women is an imperative. The business and social cases for doing so are inextricably linked.
Paul Polman
Business
Women
Cases
Imperative
Investing
Doing
Inextricably
Linked
Social
Land is a great example of how we can manage and invest in sustainable infrastructure for economic, social, and environmental gains. Its use - and misuse - is at the heart of the challenge for food, fuel, and fibre.
Paul Polman
Environmental
Food
Great
Heart
Challenge
Example
Great Example
Economic
Invest
How
Misuse
Manage
Sustainable
Gains
Infrastructure
Social
Fuel
Land
Use
We can no longer pretend that business is immune from the rising tide of environmental or social challenges or that companies can create value in isolation from the communities of which they are a part.
Paul Polman
Environmental
Business
Challenges
Value
Isolation
Pretend
Immune
Rising
Part
Longer
Tide
Which
Social
Create
Communities
Companies
Why would you invest in a company which is out of synch with the needs of society, that does not take its social compliance in its supply chain seriously, that does not think about the costs of externalities or of its negative impacts on society?
Paul Polman
Needs
You
Seriously
Negative
Think
Society
Synch
Compliance
Out
Would
Impacts
About
Costs
Invest
Take
Supply
Supply Chain
Does
Which
Social
Chain
Company
Why
Social media allows comics to bypass the gatekeepers and connect directly with people who will want to come see them.
Paul Provenza
People
Social Media
Will
Bypass
See
Directly
Come
Comics
Want
Social
Them
Who
Connect
Media
Gatekeepers
I was very concerned that President Bush is still trying to frighten or scare the American people with respect to the condition of the Social Security system.
Paul Sarbanes
Respect
People
President
President Bush
System
Security
Scare
Concerned
Still
Condition
Very
Frighten
Trying
American
Social
Bush
American People
Social Security
Social Security System
We are confronting a situation in which the Administration, in my view, is once again manufacturing a crisis. There is no crisis in the Social Security system. The system is not on the verge of bankruptcy.
Paul Sarbanes
Situation
Once
Crisis
System
Security
Administration
Verge
Bankruptcy
Which
Again
Social
Confronting
View
Manufacturing
Social Security
Social Security System
No words can describe the personal liberation that heading seaward bestows upon me. In this aquatic realm, no man or woman is subject to the petty decrees of social bureaucracy.
Paul Watson
Me
Man
Woman
Words
Petty
Liberation
No Words
Heading
Subject
Personal
Bureaucracy
Social
Realm
Describe
Social change comes through people.
Paul Watson
Change
People
Through
Social
Social Change
Any social movement throughout history has always been carried out by only 7% of population being passionately active in that.
Paul Watson
History
Active
Carried
Out
Only
Throughout
Always
Passionately
Been
Any
Movement
Being
Social
Population
A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies, even if those societies are side by side.
Pauline Hanson
Together
People
Problem
Live
Society
Side
Way
Those
Concerns
Different
Which
Social
Races
Racial
Separate
Who
Even
Societies
Two
I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lonely, so from time to time I talk to them on the Internet. It's like chatting at a bar without leaving your office. I talk with them about a lot of things other than my books.
Paulo Coelho
Time
Book
Writing
Internet
Lonely
Other
Books
Tell
About
Networking
Chatting
Never
Like
Talk
Readers
Without
Leaving
Lot
Than
Office
Sites
From Time To Time
Bar
Social
Them
Your
Things
Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society.
Paulo Freire
Oppressor
Revolution
Society
Born
Entity
Within
Social
A weapon kills people and makes people in cities dominated by fear. But if you turn it into an instrument, it's like social gold. It brings people together and you build trust.
Pedro Reyes
You
Together
Trust
People
Fear
Build
Cities
Weapon
Like
Instrument
Makes
Dominated
Gold
Social
Turn
Brings
I definitely believe that art is the best way to produce social change.
Pedro Reyes
Art
Best
Change
Believe
Way
Definitely
Best Way
Social
Social Change
Produce
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