“When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.” LittlesMadeBreakfastSugarHypeHyperCerealBreakfast Cereal Author:Dan O'Brien
“A favorite science fiction writer of mine is William Faulkner! It was an idea that came to me once, years ago, and I've never quite been able to shake it. This is facetious, on one level at least. There are telepaths in As I Lay Dying. But I think the most compelling thing for me is there are moments with him where I just feel these are not humans talking to each other. These are some hyper-intelligent, yet-to-be-born organisms. The way they look at the past without having any loss of knowledge everything that ever happened is still here.” ThinkingWayFeelsYearsHumansLooksStillsIdeasMomentsAblePastBornLossLevelsFictionTalkingHappenedDyingMinesYears AgoIntelligentScience FictionLaysShakesCompellingOrganismsNever QuitFiction WritersHyperFacetious Author:Robert Reed
“I hope progressive ways of thinking will permeate the "mainstream" more and more in the coming years. Goddess knows we have endured a very long spell (thirty plus years) of regressive thinking and hyper conservativism dominating our culture and national discourse. It necessitates risk taking and rule breaking by people in all walks of life to swing that pendulum back though.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayYearsLongCultureWalksRiskThirtyPlusProgressiveSpellsMainstreamSwingsGoddessDiscourseWay Of ThinkingRisk-takingHyperDominatingWalks Of LifePendulums Author:Ani DiFranco
“I think that it's important to try to keep reality. I think that Gabriel Garcia Marquez speaks a lot about reality in his magical realism. So I don't think we have to be hyper-realistic. But we have to understand the pressures that undergird the lives of the characters within that novel.” ThinkingTryingImportantCharacterRealitySpeakNovelPressureRealisticRealismMagical RealismHyperGabrielMarquezGarcia Marquez Author:Walter Mosley
“I feel like we're looked at as either completely nonsexual characters or overly sexual characters, and I feel like that affects how we're treated in the public space by men. I believe that women of color experience street harassment in a very hyper way. So I wanted to draw these women in their very normal, regular states and put those images out there in the public for people to see, instead of these other, very sexualized, images of women.” PeopleMenWayFeelsBelieveStatesCharacterWantedI BelieveSpaceStreetsColorNormalDrawsTreatedHarassmentHyperStreet Harassment Author:Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
“It's no secret that our nation's public universities want to transform American young people into a bunch of hyper-sensitive, intellectually-neutered cream puffs.” PeopleWantYoungNationsSecretUniversityBunchSensitiveCreamHyperPuffCream Puffs Author:Todd Starnes
“Our civilization is experiencing unprecedented changes across many realms, largely due to the rapid advancement of information technology. The ability to code and understand the power of computing is crucial to success in today's hyper-connected world.” WorldTodayAbilityTechnologyInformationCivilizationConnectedDuesCodeRealmsCrucialRapidsAdvancementUnprecedentedInformation TechnologyComputingHyper Author:Al Gore
“The Robert Mugabe school of economics provides a salutary warning about uncontrolled monetary expansion in generating hyper-inflation. The road to Harare is not as long as we might hope.” LongMightSchoolEconomicsWarningExpansionInflationMonetaryHyperMugabe Author:Vince Cable
“Social networks are like grease - in some cases, gasoline - for our personal business networking machines. If you aren't plugged in, you will be out-done by better-connected, hyper-networked colleagues and competitors.” IfsDoneSocialCasesMachinesConnectedColleaguesCompetitorsNetworkingSocial NetworkGasolineHyperGreasePersonal Business Author:danah boyd
“I'm a professional hanger outer. I'm a super liability, too. I joke around and I'm like a hyper-active child.” ChildrenJokesActiveHyperLiabilityHangers Author:Donal Logue
“By pumping up hyper-partisanship, our country (America) is playing with forces that can easily get out of control. We are giving purpose and cover - and sometimes a sense of purpose - to the crazy among us. We are encouraging a culture of extremism” GivingCountrySometimesAmericaPurposeCultureForceCrazyOur CountryExtremismHyperPartisanship Author:John Avlon
“Fantasy is hard to do when it comes to making it look good compared to something that's a documentary or hyper-realism.” LooksHardFantasyRealismDocumentariesHyper Author:Skrillex
“Whenever I am in my videos, it's rare. A lot of it is, they feel more live and hyper-realist, rather than fantasy. People would just be like, "Oh, Skrillex is acting in this video," and it wouldn't work as well.” PeopleFeelsWellsActingFantasyVideoRealistHyper Author:Skrillex
“I think all the roles I've played really center around either the great conflict or how the great conflict affects the people that I love. I've been cast often as a hard-nosed, hyper-confident guy.” PeopleThinkingHardGuyRolesConflictCastsHyper Author:Andre Braugher
“I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.” KindPersonsTwentiesIntenseImpatientHyper Author:Bill Gates
“Everything is pointing to one's own activity of looking, to an awareness and sort of hyper-consciousness of visual perception. The only way I know how to invite this experience is by removing the other things (i.e., subject matter) for you to think about.” ThinkingKnowsWayMatterConsciousnessKnow HowSubjectsAwarenessActivityPerceptionVisualsInvitesPointingSubject MatterHyperVisual Perception Author:Uta Barth
“Alexander McQueen was one of the greatest fashion designers of his generation. His genius, sometimes provocative, admired and saluted by all, constantly opened new perspectives. Visionary and avant-garde, his creations took their inspiration from both tradition and timeless hyper-modernity.” SometimesInspirationGenerationsFashionCreationPerspectiveGeniusTraditionDesignerTimelessModernityVisionariesProvocativeFashion DesignerHyperAvant GardeNew PerspectiveMcqueen Author:Francois-Henri Pinault
“I think the myths are keeping us limited to, and tied to, what I would call the hyper-masculine tradition. All the major religions in the world have been founded by men and propagated by men.” ThinkingMenWorldHas BeensMajorsTraditionMythTiedMasculineHyper Author:Arjuna Ardagh
“Most of the myths that we carry about spirituality are because we have been dominated by this hyper-masculine trance.” Has BeensSpiritualityMythMasculineHyperTrance Author:Arjuna Ardagh
“I think its a fundamental feature of images that they move from one medium to another. And this has become hyper-evident in our time with the computer, which is a kind of master-medium also and allows us to transfer data of all kinds from one platform to another, turning sounds into sights or language into image. The computer has made something that is very old evident in a new way.” ThinkingWayKindMadeMovingLanguageSoundMastersComputerSightFundamentalsMediumsAll KindsDataFeaturesOur TimePlatformsNew WaysEvidentTransfersHyper Author:W. J. T. Mitchell
“As a driver I have come to believe that the person just in front of me and the person just behind me are always just about to do something really stupid. Tense is not the right word, but I am very hyper-aware of such things.” BelievePersonsBehindsFrontsStupidDriversTenseHyperRight WordsReally Stupid Author:Jonathan Meades
“I think a lot of us who had these oddly shaped childhoods, in some ways we're hyper-capable. We're able to take care of ourselves in a lot of ways but it's like we're missing a piece. When everyone went to school to learn how to be a regular person we were sick that day. We compensate other ways. Alcohol and drugs is one of those ways. Instead of learning how to cope with our problems and deal with hardship and deal with anger, we just decide to get drunk and not care.” ThinkingWayPersonsProblemCareAbleSchoolDealsPiecesChildhoodMissingDrugCapableSickTake CareAlcoholDrunkHardshipHyper Author:Bucky Sinister
“Hip-hop is contributing to American society's misogyny and racism, hyper-sexuality anti-Black representations. Hip-Hop isn't setting the standard for misogyny. No one reduces the presidency to misogyny, although we've had misogynistic presidents. No one reduces our government to being solely homophobic, although we have a government with a don't ask, don't tell policy for gays and lesbians in the military.” GovernmentAsksBlackPresidentMilitaryPolicyGayRacismStandardsHip HopSexualitySettingSettingsHipsHopsRepresentationMisogynyPresidencyContributingHyperAmerican SocietyHomophobic Author:Bakari Kitwana
“I'm not Israeli and because I'm not a citizen, it doesn't matter how often I go there - I'm still not Israeli. There's this way I feel so close to so many people there, but I always feel like I'm staring through the glass. And in a way, having this really thin piece of glass between me and this place is incredibly useful for me as a writer, because I'm just so hyper-aware of it. I could take a walk in San Francisco and probably notice a third of the things that I would notice in Israel, because I'm just attuned to everything when I'm there.” PeopleWayFeelsStillsMatterWalksPiecesCitizensThirdsGlassesIsraelStaringSan FranciscoIsraeliHyper Author:Molly Antopol
“I think we are living in an era of being hyper-concerned about, Is it us? Because we have this historical awareness. People really want to know: will it be us or our kids or our grandkids to live through this? We don't want it to happen, we don't want to be the ones with the poisoned water, but at the same time, I think there is this curiosity, like, Am I one of the "lucky" ones who gets to be here at the end? That's the tension I'm interested in.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantEndsHappensKidsWaterAwarenessLuckyConcernedHistoricalCuriosityErasTensionHyperGrandkids Author:Lucy Corin
“Italians in particular are seen as either benign and child-like (the sweet old nonna with her meatballs), menacing mobsters, or hyper-sexualized housewives and gigolos; the kind of nourishment I'm looking for doesn't lie in any of these stereotypes.” KindChildrenLyingParticularSweetStereotypeNourishmentHousewifeBenignHyperMobsterMeatballsGigolo Author:Christopher Castellani
“I'm hyper-aware of my last name and it's lack of Derby or Horowtiz-esque sonorousness. Moffett sounds like a type of couch cushion. I guess I'm hoping to start a wave of first-name usage.” FirstsLastsNamesSoundTypeWaveCouchesUsageHyperCushionsDerby Author:Kevin Moffett
“It's partly because our culture so hyper-sexualizes females that if you don't measure up to whatever we're forced to think is the standard, then you feel inadequate.” IfsThinkingFeelsCultureStandardsFemaleInadequateHyper Author:Geena Davis
“And one thing the void certainly can teach us is how to wait, how to become truly patient, and how to let go of superfluous intellectual baggage - all of which is a good lesson for hyper-agitated multi-tasking goal-focussed contemporary human beings.” HumansWaitingGoalHuman BeingsTeachOne ThingLessonsLetting GoIntellectualPatientContemporaryVoidBaggageSuperfluousHyperMulti Tasking Author:George Pattison
“I'm mad emotional. But my emotions are - I don't really get just like sad, I get hyper, and I be like mad, and I get hungry - that's like my main emotion.” EmotionEmotionalMadHungryHyper Author:Vince Staples
“People want everything quick and now. We live in the age of social media and hyper digital. Tweets are published in less than a second, Safari pages load in less than three seconds.” PeopleWantAgeThreeSocialMediaPagesSocial MediaDigitalSecondsLoadTweetHyperSafari Author:Aeriel Miranda
“If you're going into stand-up, you're hyper-analyzing the world and asking as many questions about a thing as you possibly can so you can figure out the ultimate nature of that thing.” IfsWorldFiguresUltimateAskingAnalyzingHyper Author:Chris Hardwick
“I know plenty of hyper-intelligent metal people, but at the same time, there's this dumbass, hardheaded, macho attitude associated with it. For younger people, it's like a succubus.” PeopleKnowsAttitudeIntelligentPlentyMetalsHyperMachoSuccubusDumbasses Author:Blake Judd
“merica was middle-class for the very start - the people who came first were hyper-strivers from England. There were no vested interests, no ranks, no classes, it was very lightly populated, there were unlimited natural resources - for free essentially - if you failed, you could always start over.” PeopleIfsFirstsInterestNaturalClassMiddleResourcesEnglandMiddle ClassUnlimitedStarting OverNatural ResourcesHyperVested InterestsStrivers Author:Charles R. Morris
“They wanted to force me to be someone that I wasn't. They wanted me to delegitimize myself as a trans woman and I was not taking that. As a proud black trans woman, I was not going to allow the system to delegitimize, hyper-sexualize and take my identity away from me.” WantedForceBlackIdentityProudTransHyper Author:CeCe McDonald
“I'm really lucky because my sister is a real activist soul and also hyper-intellectualized in this way that's really allowed me to wrap my mind around some of the bigger intellectual concepts and really understand the language around identity in the gender nonconforming community.” WayMindRealSoulLanguageCommunityIdentityLuckyIntellectualConceptsBiggerGenderActivistMy SisterWrapsHyper Author:Lena Dunham
“My movie [The Neon Demon] is a hyper-version of the obsession with beauty. As this crazy obsession grows, longevity does not. Everything seems to become younger and younger. The girls and people around them cannibalize themselves.” PeopleDoeSeemsGirlGrowsCrazyVersionsObsessionDemonLongevityHyperNeon Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“Just recognizing and naming that many of the things we treat as historical fact are stories can help erode their power over our sense of identity and thinking. If they are stories rather than "truth," we can write new stories that better represent the country we aspire to be. Our new stories can be about diverse people working together to overcome challenges and make life better for all, about figuring out how to live sustainably on this one planet we share, and on deep respect for cooperation, fairness, and equity instead of promoting hyper-competitive individualism.” PeopleIfsThinkingWritingCountryFactsHelpingStoriesTogetherChallengesShareIdentityPlanetsTreatsOvercomingHistoricalWorking TogetherCooperationIndividualismDiverseFairnessAspireRecognizingEquityPromotingHyperErodeHistorical Facts Author:Annie Leonard
“The fiction is like the art, in making stuff out of nothing, in creating a hyper-reality to have an experience. If it's strong enough, and your spell is strong enough, then you become, like, ultra-magnetic and then everything comes to you.” IfsArtEnoughRealityStrongStuffFictionCreatingSpellsStrong EnoughMagneticHyperUltras Author:Watkin Tudor Jones
“I never examined my role in male culture, in hyper masculinity. I never examined it, nobody ever called me on it.” CultureRolesMalesMasculinityHyper Author:Nate Parker
“The crazy thing is a lot of people - a lot of men, if I'm just speaking for myself - don't really start thinking about the effect of hyper-masculinity and false definitions of what it means to be a man until you get married or until you have kids. Because then all of sudden you have something to protect.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenMeanKidsCrazyEffectsProtectMarriedDefinitionsMasculinityBe A ManHyperCrazy Things Author:Nate Parker
“I have engaged in hyper-male culture, and I'm learning about it, and I'm learning how I can change and help young boys and young men change.” MenI CanHelpingYoungCultureBoysMalesYoung ManEngagedHyper Author:Nate Parker
“If I choose this platform [The Black Arts Movement] and God validates this platform, I feel like we have to use the hyper-reality to get people closer to [actual] reality. Right now is so special because it's the information age and people just want to be aware and there's no better way of doing that than through art.” PeopleIfsWayWantFeelsArtUseRealityAgeBlackSpecialInformationMovementRight NowPlatformsBetter WaysHyperInformation AgeBlack Art Author:Kofi Siriboe
“Once the government runs out of foreign and private sector bidders for new Treasurys, the Federal Reserve will be the only buyer, and the hyper-inflation cat will be completely out of the bag.” GovernmentRunningCatBagsReservesInflationPrivate SectorFederal ReserveHyperBuyers Author:Peter Schiff
“The other thing is that it's really hard to separate out the harassment from everything we do. When we started creating Tropes, we were hyper-aware of the intense scrutiny, the intense harassment, and the intense pressure to do something meaningful given the attention both positive and negative. That's carried over in terms of making sure that I produce the best work that I can, that's the most accurate, the most sensitive and engaged.” I CanHardGivenTermAttentionProduceCreatingNegativePressureMeaningfulIntenseSensitiveEngagedAccurateBest WorkScrutinyHarassmentHyperTropes Author:Anita Sarkeesian
“here's certain things that are similar to cats and dogs. Dogs are just hyper social and they have a want to please you way more than a cat does.” WayWantDoeCertainSocialDogPleaseCatHyperCat And Dog Author:Temple Grandin
“A cat can be social, but a dog, we've bred this hyper social animal that's really truly different and will do stuff for us just to please us with praise and stroking.” DifferentSocialStuffAnimalDogPleaseCatPraiseHyper Author:Temple Grandin
“The universe is a symphony of strings, and the mind of God that Einstein eloquently wrote about for thirty years would be cosmic music resonating through eleven-dimensional hyper space.” YearsMindWould BeUniverseSpaceThirtyStringsCosmicSymphonyElevenThirty YearsHyperResonating Author:Michio Kaku
“The obsessive documentation is itself adjacent to hyper-consumption in our society. The desire to just have everything all the time and adjacent to that is - it might be a little hokey but - a certain loss of identity that then only gets sort of found or ascribed to these moments that are documented.” LittlesMomentsMightDesireCertainFoundLossIdentityOur SocietyConsumptionObsessiveHyperDocumentationLoss Of Identity Author:Ted Leo