“People think about this idea that there's 122 million kids that are alive that would not be if that fatality rate had stayed at the 1990 level, that's 122 million families.” PeopleIfsThinkingIdeasKidsLevelsMillionsAliveRateFatality Author:Bill Gates
“I went to Catholic school my entire life. Elementary school was probably my worst time - those are the years when you're figurin' out who you are, and then you've got the added pressure of being on the light-skinned side of things. I've been around - excuse me saying - predominantly white people in Catholic school, who sit around and just talk about black people because they thought they were in the presence of themselves, and they used to talk cool. I felt firsthand the racial prejudice that is still alive today.” PeopleYearsStillsLightTodaySchoolUsedFeltSidesBlackWhiteAliveWorstPrejudicePressureCatholicWho You AreExcuseBlack PeopleLive For TodayExcuse MeElementary SchoolRacial PrejudiceCatholic SchoolWorst Times Author:Kevin michael
“I think people who work and being alive and paying your bills and feeding your kids is hard. It's hard to have the space. Quite frankly, I'm in a privileged position to think about things, to read about things and to educate myself about things. A lot of people just don't have the time.” PeopleThinkingHardKidsSpaceAlivePositionBillsEducatePrivilegedFeeding Author:Ellen Page
“There is a sort of backlash of people who feel like you're not representing them accurately, and you want to say as elegantly as you can, "I wasn't trying to represent you I, was just doing what I could do to make being alive easier for me." And if it helped anyone or made them feel comforted in the process then it's the greatest thing you can ask for.” PeopleIfsWantFeelsTryingMadeAsksProcessAliveLike YouEasierRepresentingBacklash Author:Lena Dunham
“The music business has changed so much. Collaborations are all over the Internet. The young people are keeping the old school alive. A lot of them run out of ideas so they grab these songs that we've had out for 50 years and bringing them back and making people rich again. That's a nice thing. A lot of artists don't have incomes after a certain time in their life because nobody's is buying the songs. This revival of their music has taken a lot of writers out of the poor house.” PeopleYearsIdeasRunningSchoolYoungArtistCertainSongHousePoorRichTakenNiceAliveChangedInternetIncomeBuyingCollaborationRevivalMusic BusinessNice ThingsOld School Author:Dutch Robinson
“I would say digital technology probably doesn't have much impact on us so far. We've seen photographs of people from when they are alive. We see home movies. We have videotapes now and e-mails. When it's going to get interesting is in massively multiplayer online games where you have avatars (online personas). You could actually create an avatar that's semi-autonomous. It could do things for you while you get off the game to run the rest of your life.” PeopleHomeRunningGamesInterestingTechnologyAliveImpactPhotographDigitalOnlineMailRest Of Your LifePersonaAutonomousDigital Technology Author:Paul Saffo
“Take cyberspace as an example. We had this wonderful utopian vision of a new home for the mind. What we've reaped isn't cyberspace. It's cyberbia. It's this vast, bland wasteland of vulgar people and trivial ideas and pictures of half-naked starlets. But despite all the uncertainty, has there ever been a more fascinating moment to be alive?” PeopleMindIdeasMomentsHomeHalfVisionAliveWonderfulExampleNakedDespiteUncertaintyFascinatingVulgarUtopianBlandNew HomeCyberspaceWastelandStarlets Author:Paul Saffo
“Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren't alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump. Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don't. That's partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible - Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.” PeopleWantEnoughBigsCitiesEnvironmentAliveGrewWalkingGrew UpHawaiiTrashGarbageCorpsesDumpPristineSacrilege Author:Bette Midler
“I've discovered that, in order for life to go on, you have to believe in necessary fantasies such as what you think is going to happen next week will actually happen, the people who are alive right now will be alive next week.” PeopleThinkingBelieveHappensOrderNextFantasyAliveWeekGoes OnRight NowNext Week Author:Decca Aitkenhead
“Maybe I'm perverse, but the question of "rooting" for a character, or setting out to write a character for whom other people will root, has never had anything to do with why I read or write fiction. As long as the writing and story remain alive, intense, invigorating, provoking, the characters can be as demonic or saintly as the author wants.” PeopleWantWritingLongCharacterStoriesFictionAliveRootsIntenseSettingSettingsProvokingDemonicInvigorating Author:James Lasdun
“It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.” PeopleWritingBookAliveTaughtEmpathyLibraryConnectedPainful Things Author:James A. Baldwin
“I think modern societies have to ask a very basic question: What strategies buy the most health for people? Doctors can do so many marvelous things now. They can keep a corpse alive, almost.” PeopleThinkingAsksCan DoAliveModernDoctorsStrategyMarvelousCorpsesModern SocietyMarvelous Things Author:Richard Lamm
“Life is really pretty tricky, and there's a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose whom you actually couldn't live without.” PeopleLife IsLosesLossAliveTrickyStaying AliveReally Pretty Author:Anne Lamott
“Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. When I ride through Beverly Hills in the early morning, and all the sprinklers have turned off, the scents that wash over me are just heavenly. Being House is like flying, too. You're free of the gravity of what people think.” PeopleThinkingInspirationalHouseMorningAliveDrivingSensesFlyingHillsHeavenlyGravityScentMotorcycleBeing FreeEarly MorningTurned OffBeverly HillsHeavenly Beings Author:Hugh Laurie
“I can only admire people who I have never met and are dead - because you know so much about anyone who is alive.” PeopleKnowsI CanAliveMetsAdmire Author:Ken Livingstone
“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.” PeopleIfsWould BeLiteratureInspiringFantasyAlivePersonalityDiversitySocial JusticeBeing YourselfBlack WomenBlack HistoryBlack Women InspirationalFemale WritersBlack MotivationalDefining Myself Author:Audre Lorde
“It's your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious.” PeopleAliveContagious Author:Peter McWilliams