“You had to pick up a landline to make sure your best friend wore a matching outfit to school. I do remember people talking more. Nostalgia is dangerous, though.” PeopleSchoolRememberTalkingDangerousPicksNostalgiaYour Best FriendMatchingPeople Talking Author:Lauren Groff
“We realized we weren't really using Odeo, we weren't investing our own time creating podcasts. We were building a tool that was a great idea for some other people. That's a dangerous way to go because if you don't actually use it yourself and love it, then you aren't going to be as fully invested in it from the start. That's what leads you to doing side projects.” PeopleIfsWayIdeasUseSidesDangerousBuildingProjectsCreatingToolsAnd LoveInvestingGreat IdeaYourself And Love Author:Biz Stone
“Being an American journalist can put people on the defensive. In countries where people assume the press is partisan, like in Lebanon, or where it had essentially become an extension of the government, like in Iraq, people tend to see a journalist as an agent of his or her government. That can be dangerous if the United States military is occupying their country, or aligned with their enemies.” PeopleIfsCountryStatesGovernmentUnitedEnemyUnited StatesMilitaryDangerousPressesAssumingIraqAgentsJournalistExtensionsPartisansLebanonUnited States Military Author:Annia Ciezadlo
“When your persona begins to take over your music and becomes more important, you enter a dangerous place. Once you have people around you who don't question you, you're in a dangerous place.” PeopleImportantDangerousPersonaDangerous Places Author:Elton John
“We have become this very fear-based culture, especially post-9/11. Fear is the opposite of love, in my opinion. I think there would be more love in the world. I'm not talking about rainbows and unicorns and '70s Coca-Cola commercials. I'm talking about gritty, dangerous, wild-eyed love. Radical acceptance of people. Belonging. A good, goofy kind of love.” PeopleThinkingWorldKindWould BeCultureTalkingOpinionDangerousAcceptanceOppositesRadicalPostsBelongingRainbowNot TalkingUnicornKinds Of LoveGoofyCoca ColaRadical Acceptance Author:Brené Brown
“People who thought that she was busy going around trying to stir up difficulty where there was none or less than she imagined, were quite critical of her. She was, we must never forget, a public figure. And in democracies, public figures tend to attract criticism as well as praise. The most dangerous thing would be if anybody were regarded as above criticism. And Eleanor Roosevelt is, in recent years, getting there.” PeopleIfsTryingYearsWellsWould BeForgetDemocracyDangerousFiguresCriticismDifficultyPraiseBusyCriticalNever ForgetDangerous ThingsEleanorPublic Figures Author:William A. Rusher
“But the other audience, I think, is people in Central America because since last summer, they've been running ads down there - the United States government has - don't come, it's dangerous. You will be immediately deported. That's literally what it says in Spanish.” PeopleThinkingStatesGovernmentRunningLastsAmericaUnitedUnited StatesAudienceDangerousSummerAdsState GovernmentUnited States GovernmentCentral AmericaLast Summer Author:Mark Krikorian
“They're people who probably imagine that they would have had a better time in the past. I wouldn't imagine you'd encounter a lot of black people saying 'Oh, the '50s, that was when America was great.' It's very dangerous because the past was imperfect, and you can't go back anyway.” PeopleAmericaPastBlackImagineDangerousEncountersBlack PeopleImperfectImagine That Author:Christine Jennings
“The best stuff that Cicero wrote, in the first century in Rome, were the Philippics, a series of speeches that he delivered against Marc Antony, whom he thought was irreparably dismantling the Republic of Rome. Those speeches are powerful because they're not only really pointed but they're thrillingly beautiful - and that's precisely what made them dangerous: the fact that people wanted to read them.” PeopleFirstsMadeFactsWantedBeautifulStuffPowerfulCenturyDangerousSpeechSeriesRepublicRomeAntony Author:John D'Agata
“So it's a dangerous thing and conversely, the other thing I mentioned in that post was that people see guys who are kind of in touch with that and become famous for it and then think maybe they can get in on it. Maybe they're not quite as cynical as that and there's some sincerity about them, but they don't really get it so they just imitate what they've seen from people who've done it before and of course you can make big money that way.” PeopleThinkingWayKindDoneBigsGuyCoursesDangerousPostsSincerityCynicalDangerous Things Author:Brad Warner
“I encourage young people to refrain from putting themselves in dangerous situations in the name of validating themselves sexually.” PeopleYoungNamesSituationDangerousSexuallyRefrainDangerous Situations Author:Christopher Rice
“For me, the key question is what's behind the dangerous idea. If it's simply to stir things up and appear radical, I'm not interested. But if it's done with a quest to learn, evolve, and improve the quality of life for people everywhere, I'm on board.” PeopleIfsIdeasDoneBehindsQualityDangerousKeysRadicalEvolveBoardsQuestsNot InterestedQuality Of LifeDangerous Ideas Author:David Livermore
“You can go to these chat-lines. It's not hard it's really easy. Another thing the show makes clear is not talking about these issues is what leads kids to go on the Internet and find out the information themselves. And then they come across people like Mr. Healy wanting to meet them in the park. That's what leads to these kind of more-dangerous things.” PeopleKindHardShowsKidsEasyLinesTalkingIssuesClearDangerousInformationGoes OnInternetParksNot TalkingDangerous Things Author:Sarah Steele
“And we're being attacked because of what we do, not because of who we are. And by refusing to talk about that, I'm afraid the American people, at least, don't have a good idea of just how dangerous the threat is that we face.” PeopleIdeasFacesDangerousThreatWho We AreGood Ideas Author:Michael Scheuer
“And when you say the policies are what caused this war - American policies - that's not to say that they're wrong. It's not to say that the policies were made by madmen or evil people. It's simply to say that you better understand the motivation of your enemy if you're going to defeat him. And the man who is motivated by a belief that his religion is being attacked by a superpower is much more dangerous than a man who's mad at you because you have women in the workplace.” PeopleIfsMenMadeWarMotivationEvilBeliefEnemyDangerousPolicyHe ManMadDefeatMotivatedWorkplaceMadmenSuperpowerEvil People Author:Michael Scheuer
“I would say that not many German people are still alive, who experienced what happened during the third reich. We don't have to go to the Stasi, we can go to the Gestapo, and see what happens, when your human rights, your ability to a freedom of expression and a freedom of thought is infringed upon. This is terribly, terribly dangerous territory.” PeopleHumansStillsHappensAbilityAliveRightsHappenedDangerousExpressionThirdsHuman RightsTerritoryFreedom Of ThoughtFreedom Of ExpressionGestapo Author:Ray McGovern
“There are some people in occult history who warned against using the Ouija Board, who said: "This is a dangerous door to the unconscious. Don't approach this thing."” PeopleSaidDoorsDangerousApproachBoardsUnconsciousOccultOuija Board Author:Mitch Horowitz
“One of the lessons that I hope people will take out is the extreme dependence simply on the financial sector is really dangerous.” PeopleDangerousLessonsFinancialExtremesDependence Author:Juan Enriquez
“It took a long time for me to walk. I was falling down all the time. But I ended up being one of the dangerous men, who broke so many people's noses, which is bad.” PeopleMenLongFallWalksDangerousLong TimeBrokeNosesFalling DownDangerous Man Author:Dikembe Mutombo
“When High and Mighty people want to make us believe that they possess some good quality which they in fact do not have, it is dangerous to show that you doubt them; because, by removing their hope of deceiving the world, you also remove their desire to perform the good acts that might have arisen from their very pretensions.” PeopleWorldWantBelieveFactsShowsMightLyingDesireBeliefQualityDoubtDangerousDangerDeceitRemoveDeceivingPretensionGood Quality Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable
“The reason that people in the intellectual community argue that football is dangerous is because there's now a large swath of society that has no relationship to physicality or potential violence.” PeopleReasonCommunityViolenceDangerousFootballIntellectualArguingPhysicality Author:Chuck Klosterman
“Hetero - normative behavior and herd mentality is dangerous. It's okay to be different. It's okay to stand out for whatever reason. Some people are just born that way and instead of trying to tear them down, learn something new. Be curious and open because maybe that's a pathway out for you, too.” PeopleWayTryingDifferentReasonBornDangerousTearsBehaviorOkayCuriousSomething NewMentalityStanding OutPathwaysHerdsHerd Mentality Author:Rose McGowan
“I think there is such a thing as a bad seed that comes to flower in certain people. The danger with that theory is that we begin to look for those "troublemakers" early on and try to weed them out. That's very dangerous, because it could work against kids who are just routine troublemakers.” PeopleThinkingTryingLooksKidsCertainDangerousDangerFlowerTheorySeedsRoutineWeedTroublemakerBad Seed Author:James Hillman
“I feel that other people's suggestions are very dangerous. Yet, I can't say that they are always destructive or not useful. Perhaps, rather than having other people tell you how you should improve your work, they should just tell you how they understand your work, what they got out of it, so that you can figure out yourself if what you did was right or wrong.” PeopleIfsFeelsShouldI CanDangerousFiguresDestructiveSuggestions Author:Yuriy Tarnawsky
“I don't like the tendency on the part of so many people today to think that those who don't agree with them are bad. In fact, I find that very dangerous.” PeopleThinkingFactsTodayDangerousAgreeTendencies Author:Marianne Williamson
“I do not believe Federal Government fear me at all, they know the truth. They know I am not a dangerous person, they hold me as a hostage to discourage other people from possibly standing up to their valued system. In their minds, right or wrong the public is expected to lay down for them. You see examples of this, at the Ruby Ridge massacre and the Waco massacre, where they killed all those children and group members.” PeopleKnowsMindBelieveChildrenPersonsGovernmentGroupsDangerousExampleMembersStandingLaysExpectedFederal GovernmentDiscouragingHostageMassacresHold MeRubiesRidgesFear Me Author:Leonard Peltier
“On average, most people consume between 100 - 120 grams of protein per day. Not only is that unhealthy, it's extremely dangerous, as the majority of the protein consumed is animal based.” PeopleAnimalDangerousMajorityAverageConsumedUnhealthyProtein Author:Sharon Gannon
“People have assumed that I have to run the ball before I can throw it most all of my career, all the way back before high school. It's a stereotype put on me for a long time because I'm African-American and I'm a dual-threat quarterback. I don't know why that stereotype is still around. It's about talent and the ability to throw the ball, not the color of your skin or your ability to also be a dangerous runner.” PeopleKnowsWayLongStillsI CanRunningSchoolAbilityCareersTalentDangerousColorLong TimeHigh SchoolSkinsBallsThreatAfrican AmericanRunnersStereotypeQuarterback Author:Deshaun Watson
“I think that's the most dangerous kind of sexism: People don't realize it's there and we end up surreptitiously accepting it because it's just part of our culture. I've never experienced explicit, overt, confrontational sexism personally.” PeopleThinkingKindEndsCultureRealizingAcceptingDangerousSexismExplicit Author:Natalie Dormer
“There are those people who basically don't like those who are different. Now, that is a prejudice and it's a prejudice that's dangerous because in the world today, the world works through connectivity. It works through going across the boundaries, but faith and culture and race in a nation.” PeopleWorldDifferentTodayCultureNationsRaceDangerousPrejudiceBoundariesWorld Today Author:Tony Blair
“In America, to have news that has explicitly taken a position is a very strange place to be in, and it's a very dangerous place to be in. And that's happening on Facebook, as you saw, and that's happening online. People are just being given their news and not the news, which is really, really scary.” PeopleAmericaGivenTakenSawsDangerousPositionStrangeNewsHappeningsScaryOnlineJust BeingDangerous PlacesReally ScaryStrange Places Author:Trevor Noah
“People change their habits. I know Americans who don't go to Paris because they think it is too dangerous.” PeopleThinkingKnowsDangerousHabitParis Author:Paul Wolfowitz
“Donald Trump wants to make it clear to the American people that, while Hillary Clinton is committed to open borders, and amnesty, and executive amnesty, and more of the same that has really harmed our economy, and, frankly, as he said, with regard to dangerous individuals in this country, has cost American lives. . . .” PeopleWantSaidCountryIndividualEconomyClearDangerousTrumpCostRegardClintonCommittedBordersExecutivesAmerican LifeAmnesty Author:Mike Pence
“I realized I was growing up or something like that. You have responsibilities...you've got to think about getting your act together. I didn't even know what it had been doing to me. I didn't realize how dangerous it was. People talked in terms of drugs and I used to think in terms of...well in Ireland, everybody drinks. Nobody gives it a second thought. You're Irish number one and you're a drinker number two. That's the first two things about us Irish.” PeopleThinkingKnowsGivingFirstsWellsTwoTogetherUsedTermRealizingNumbersResponsibilityGrowing UpGrowingDangerousDrinkDrugI RealizedTwo ThingsIrelandDrinkersSecond Thoughts Author:Van Morrison
“Resolved, That we especially protest against this present attempt to force all the people to follow the religious dictates of a part of the people, as establishing a precedent for the entrance of a most dangerous complicity between Church and State, thereby subtly undermining the foundation of liberty, so carefully laid by the wisdom of our fathers.” PeopleStatesFatherForceChurchReligiousLibertyAtheismDangerousFoundationPositive AtheismProtestOur FatherChurch And StateEntrancesPrecedentUnderminingComplicity Author:Ellen Battelle Dietrick
“This is very dangerous for us, as a society, and I think people deserve a politics of integrity that is not bought and paid for by big banks, fossil fuel giants, war profiteers, insurance companies, the things that those two corporate parties both represent and which pull the strings inside the party.” PeopleThinkingTwoWarBigsPartyCompanyDangerousIntegrityDeservePaidCorporateGiantsFuelStringsFossilsFossil FuelInsurance Companies Author:Jill Stein
“I think Donald Trump simply needs to make himself look less bigoted, less dangerous, more comfortable to people.” PeopleThinkingNeedsLooksDangerousTrumpComfortable Author:E. J. Dionne
“People with strong breeds are trying to be in control because their dog is labeled as aggressive or dangerous. That tells us how ignorant we are even though we love dogs.” PeopleTryingStrongDogDangerousIgnorantAggressiveDog Love Author:Cesar Millan
“I have a little bit of an out-of-body experience where I enjoy the scenario, and I really do like seeing a crowd turn into a mob, and I do nothing to stop it. People can become really dangerous.” PeopleLittlesBodyTurnsBitsEnjoySeeingDangerousLittle BitCrowdsScenarios Author:Norm MacDonald
“There's a big thing right now with people using stand-up as a scapegoat. People think comedians have the power to change someone in an hour. If we had that ability, the art would not be legal. It would too dangerous.” PeopleIfsThinkingArtBigsHoursAbilityDangerousRight NowComedianBig ThingsScapegoatPower To Change Author:Bill Burr
“Marco Rubio is one of those people. How does that work? How can you call him a con artist and dangerous, and object to all the controversial things he says, and then say, but I`m still going to vote for him? Come on, man.” PeopleMenDoeStillsArtistDangerousObjectsVoteControversialMarcosCon Artist Author:Barack Obama
“Politics enter dangerous ground, when people proclaim there are simple answers for our complex world.” PeopleWorldSimpleAnswersDangerousComplexes Author:Sjon
“I believe we must study which changes must be made now that the immigration system has changed, because we are seeing, I believe, that at this time we are inviting people to come to the U.S. on very dangerous trips.” PeopleBelieveMadeI BelieveStudySeeingDangerousChangedImmigrationInviting Author:Marco Rubio
“We have an even worse situation in Syria, where the United States' allies are actually supporting people who are violently opposed to the United States, who are dangerous, radical Islamist fanatics. I mean, where is the logic of that? When are we going to call the Saudis on the support of intolerant, bigoted, fanatical types of Islam? When are we going to call this ally?” PeopleMeanStatesUnitedSituationUnited StatesSupportDangerousTypeLogicIslamRadicalAlliesSyriaFanaticsSaudisIslamists Author:Rashid Khalidi
“As long as Negro leader is making the white man think that our people are satisfied to sit in his house and wait for him to correct these conditions, he is - he is misrepresenting the thinking of the black masses, and he's doing the white man a disservice because he's making the white man be more complacent than he would be if he knew the dangerous situation that is building up right inside his own house.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenLongWould BeHouseWaitingBlackWhiteSituationLeaderConditionsDangerousBuildingMassSatisfiedWhite ManComplacentBuilding UpDisserviceWait For HimDangerous Situations Author:Malcolm X
“You're going to have a racial explosion, and a racial explosion is more dangerous than an atomic explosion. It's going to explode because black people are dissatisfied; they're dissatisfied not only with the white man, but they're dissatisfied with these Negroes who have been sitting around here posing as leaders and spokesmen for black people and actually making the problem worse instead of making the problem better.” PeopleMenHas BeensProblemBlackWhiteLeaderDangerousSittingBlack PeopleWhite ManExplosionsSitting AroundDissatisfiedPosing Author:Malcolm X
“I was leaving the Belfast court, where I had been called to answer a very flimsy charge, later dismissed. You're relatively safe in such areas in the Irish community, but to go to downtown Belfast for me is dangerous. My appearance in court had been well advertised by the police. I think it was too much of a coincidence that the people who shot me were just passing by.” PeopleThinkingWellsCommunityAnswersToo MuchDangerousSafeShotsAreasPoliceCourtLeavingAppearancePassingPassingsCoincidenceDowntownPassing ByBelfast Author:Gerry Adams
“Satire is meant to have teeth; satire is meant to be dangerous. But it also happens to be fun because subversion and telling the right kind of people to go to hell is supposed to feel good.” PeopleFeelsKindHappensFunHellDangerousTeethFeel GoodSatireMeant To BeGo To HellSubversion Author:John Cusack
“Now that is dangerous, when the people don't know what's happening to their Constitution.” PeopleKnowsDangerousHappeningsConstitution Author:Nat Hentoff
“I don't think Donald Trump is an ideologue, so it's not really his policies that I think are going to maybe fire people up. It's his rhetoric and, you know, his willingness to wield power in a manner that can be potentially exploitative and dangerous.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFireDangerousPolicyTrumpWillingnessRhetoricIdeologues Author:Megyn Kelly