• "Your legacy is every life you've ever touched."
• “You have no idea what your legacy will be. Your legacy is what you do every day. Your legacy is every life you’ve touched, every person whose life was either moved or not. It’s every person you’ve harmed or helped. That’s your legacy.”

– Maya Angelou (as stated by Oprah Winfrey)

• "Isn't it sad when you get hurt so much, you can finally say 'I'm used to it.'"

– Unknown

• "Let your past make you better, not bitter."

– Unknown

• "It's not the future you're afraid of. It's repeating the past that makes you anxious."

– Unknown

• "You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading your last one."

– Michael McMillan (From his Facebook post)

• "Life is hard for everyone, so let's at least make a cheerful fantasy world."

– Enjouji Maki (mangaka)

• "The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mysteries of the universe."

– Charles W. Chestnutt

• "Don't spoil a good story by telling the truth."

– Isabella Stewart Gardener

• "...a woman with a party of men is a token of peace."

– William Clark, regarding Sacagawea in his journal recording the Lewis and Clark Expedition [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacagawea]

• "Either there is mutual respect or the conversation is over."

– Lebanese TV host Rima Karaki

• "We are intended to see through the eye, with the conscience. Now we see with the eye, devoid of a conscience."

– Dr. Ravi Zacharias

• "We didn't know how to blow up buildings then, so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters."

– _Ben Mankiewicz, host (TCM Talk)

• “He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”

– Socrates

• "If you're going through hell, keep going."

– Winston Churchill

• "Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for ‘tis better to be alone than in bad company."

— George Washington

• "Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

– Dr. Seuss

• "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."

― Mary Angelou

• "Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier."

- Mother Theresa

• “If I look at the mass I will never act. If I look at the one, I will.”

– Mother Teresa

• "Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."

― Eleanor Roosevelt

• "Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say

yes." ― Eleanor Roosevelt

• “Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.”

― Coco Chanel

• "Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy."

― F. Scott Fitzgerald

• "A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it."

– Helen Rowland

• "By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
• "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail."

– Benjamin Franklin

• "Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die."

– Mel Brooks

• "A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."

– Oscar Wilde

• "A man can do all things if he will."

– 15th-century polymath Leon Battista Alberti (architect, painter, horseman, archer and inventor)

• “Teamwork makes the dream work.”

– Tabatha (Tabatha’s Salon Takeover)

• "People who have the most fun with their business make the most money."

― Barbara (Shark Tank)

• "If you can affect someone when they’re young, you are in their heart forever."

– Mara Wilson

• "My personal creed? 'Fool me once, you’ll forever regret that decision.'"

– Dylan Sprouse

• "I have an agenda for people to be better humans. Why? Because I want more people to talk to, more people to play with, and more interesting things to watch and listen to and read. It's not that complicated."

– Rose McGowan

• "You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."

– Kahlil Gibran

• “Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.”

– Aldo Leopold

• "One swallow does not a summer make, nor one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy."

– Aristotle

• "As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others."

– Audrey Hepburn

• "We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person."

– W. Somerset Maugham

• "I don't feel like I'm the kind of person who can deal with some kind of foreign stimulant. I don't need an excuse to act a certain way. Some people use that to show their true feelings, whereas I do that all the time."

– Kat Dennings

• "To try and fasten any responsibility on art as the cause of life seems to me to put the case the wrong way around. Art consists of reshaping life, but it does not create life, nor cause life."

– Stanley Kubrick (in reference to the film he directed, A Clockwork Orange)

• "Because in the end we are not trying to recreate the scientifically correct real world. We're trying to create a believable world, one the audience can immerse themselves in to experience the story."

– Danielle Feinberg (TEDTalk: "The magic ingredient that brings Pixar movies to life")

• "We must remain hopeful that a universal ethic of courage, caring, sharing, respect, radical compassion, and love will make a difference, even if we do not see the positive results of our efforts... We can never be too generous or too kind."

– Marc Bekoff

• "When people say, 'I know God forgives me, but I can't forgive myself,' they mean that they have failed an idol, whose approval is more important than God's."

– Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters by Timothy Keller

• "The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture."

– Timothy Keller

• "Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him."

― Sojourner Truth (excerpt from her 1851 speech, "Ain't I a Woman?")

• "'Let me make the ballads of a nation, and I care not who makes the laws.' Might it not be said, with as much propriety, 'let me make the novels of a country, and let who will make the systems?'"

– _Anna L. Barbauld ("On the Origin and Progress of Novel Writing," 1810)

• "It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses."

– Colette

• "Here's my thing. I support anybody's right to be whoever they feel like they are inside. I'm your ally in that. However... my question is... to what degree do I have to participate in your self-image? Is it fair that I have to change my whole pronoun game up for this motherfucker?"

– Dave Chappelle (Netflix)

• “My problem has never been with transgender people. I just feel like these things should not be discussed in front of the Blacks. It's fucking insulting, all this talk about how these people feel inside. Since when has America given a fuck how any of us feel inside? And I cannot shake this awful suspicion that the only reason everybody is talking about transgenders is because White men want to do it. That’s right, I just said that. If it was just women who felt that way, or Black dudes and Mexican dudes being like, “Hey y’all, we feel like girls inside,” they’d be like, “Shut up, nigger, nobody asked how you felt. Come on everybody, we have strawberries to pick!” It reeks of White privilege. You ever ask yourself why it was easier for Bruce Jenner to change his gender than it was for Cassius Clay to change his fucking name?"

– Dave Chappelle, Equanimity & The Bird Revelation (Netflix)

• "Every evil has its good, and every ill an antidote."

– Dorothy Dix

• "There is no weapon in the feminine armory to which men are so vulnerable as they are to a smile."

– Dorothy Dix

• "There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears."

– Dorothy Dix

• "I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us."

– Dorothy Dix

• "Brains are still unfashionable for women to wear, and it has always been proof of women's superiority that the more intelligent a man is, the more women admire him, while the bigger fool a woman is, the more men run after her."

– Dorothy Dix

• "Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character; and then he is never made radically better for its influence."

– Dorothy Dix

• "The theatrical window is to the movie business what live concerts are to the music business—and no one goes to a concert to be played an MP3 on a bare stage."

– Christopher Nolan

• "Fiction is lies, we’re writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fantasy or western mystery stories or so-called literary stories. All those things are essentially untrue. But it has to have a truth at the core of it. You’re still writing about people, you’re writing about the human condition. I often quote Faulkner, who said in his speech after winning the Nobel Prize that “the human heart in conflict with itself” is the only thing worth writing about. And I’ve always agreed with that. It’s true no matter what genre you’re writing in, even if there are dragons in it or it’s about a private detective or a western gunslinger, it’s still ultimately about the human heart in conflict with itself or it’s not worth reading."

– George R.R. Martin (author of Game of Thrones)

• “You can be a juicy, ripe peach and there’s still going to be someone who doesn’t like peaches, so you can either submit to someone’s criticism of you, or you can get on with the business of being your own amazing self who attracts other like-minded people that appreciate you.”

– Dita Von Teese

• "No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite."

– Nelson Mandela

• “The best revenge? Smile and never let them know it hurt."

– KARA's Goo Hara

• "We cannot judge people by their first impression."

– FT Island's HongKi

• "It's better to be hated than ignored."

– Big Bang's G-Dragon

• "There is an invisible string connecting one person to another, whether it is long, short, knotted or wrapped tightly that you can't undo it. It's good up to there, but never cut that string."

– 2NE1's Minzy

• "...my mom raised us to know that we are equal to anyone. Whenever we went out, if we were meeting other people, my mom would always say, “I hope you like them.” Not “I hope they like you.” We were the most important.

– Zoe Saldana for The Hollywood Reporter (August 2014)

• "I think there's a limit on what we can say and on the things that we can do. Ironically people want idol stars to be just themselves. At the same time I think people have this certain image...If we do something that deviates from that image...then I think some people don't really like us doing that. I didn't realize that I was slowly changing myself like that."

― SNSD's Sooyoung (from Win Win show)

• "As long as I feel solid about my creative choices, people can have whatever image or perception of me that they’d like. You can’t think that someone’s impression of you is wrong--it’s their impression--and, therefore, you really can’t worry about it. So many people have developed their impressions based on fucking bullshit and you’ll never do anything true to yourself. You’ll never make the art you want to make if you’re concerned about that."

– Kristen Stewart

• "Drinking is embedded within a handful of social situations, which makes it more acceptable than smoking. You have a glass of wine for a fancy dinner, champagne to celebrate, beer for a football game or absinthe for artistic moments."

― Kennedy Halstead

• “I think people who don’t have faults are very boring. Your faults are a very large part of what you are like as a person. And my aim is always to make what I write interesting. If I can’t be interested in people with no faults, then neither can you.”

― Diana Wynne Jones (Howl’s Moving Castle interview)

• "To all who come to this happy place; welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past ... and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams and the hard facts that have created America ... with the hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world."

– Walt Disney (July 1955, Grand Opening of Disneyland - Dedication Day Speech)

• “Imitation Game” screenwriter Graham Moore stressed that these films, being pieces of art, should not be expected to fulfill the role of historical text. / 'When you use the language of ‘fact checking’ to talk about a film, I think you’re sort of fundamentally misunderstanding how art works,' he explained. 'You don’t fact check Monet’s ‘Water Lilies.' That’s not what water lilies look like, that’s what the sensation of experiencing water lilies feel like. That’s the goal of the piece.' / Rooted in 'the true events that really happened,' according to the film’s director, Morten Tyldum... / 'A lot of historical films sometimes feel like people reading a Wikipedia page to you onscreen, like just reciting ‘and then he did that, and then he did that, and then he did this other thing’ — it’s like a ‘Greatest Hits’ compilation,' Tyldum said. 'We wanted the movie to be emotional and passionate. Our goal was to give you ‘What does Alan Turing feel like?’' he continued. '‘What does his story feel like? What’d it feel like to be Alan Turing?'

– ‘Imitation Game’ Writer Slams ‘Fact-Checking’ Films As Misunderstanding Of Art by Emily Tess Katz

• "[My sister Simone said] 'It's okay for you to feel jealous. It's okay. That's a natural feeling. You can't stop yourself from feeling that way. And you've told me so you've told someone. You don't need to tell anyone else. You just can't ever act on jealousy. But you have to understand that what you have is completely different than what my friend had. What you have no one else has, so there will be a place for you. Don't think that because someone got something that you're not going to get something else. There's room for everybody.' And that stuck with me always because it's so easy to see somebody else kind of getting the limelight or your light is fading, you're not al—you know—your light isn't always as bright as it's going to be. There's always people coming in and coming up, but to remember that there's always a space for you because there is no one that's exactly like you. So, whenever I have feelings like that, I always tell one person, and then I don't act on them. And I never ever blow out someone else's candle to make mine brighter."

– Chelsea Handler

• "There are many white people who mean right and in their hearts wanna do right. If 10,000 snakes were coming down that aisle now, and I had a door that I could shut, and in that 10,000, 1,000 meant right, 1,000 rattlesnakes didn't want to bite me, I knew they were good... Should I let all these rattlesnakes come down, hoping that that thousand get together and form a shield? Or should I just close the door and stay safe?"

- Mohamed Ali

• An incident transpired when Muhammad Ali’s daughters arrived at his home wearing clothes that were quite revealing: “When we finally arrived, the chauffeur escorted my younger sister, Laila, and me up to my father’s suite. As usual, he was hiding behind the door waiting to scare us. We exchanged many hugs and kisses as we could possibly give in one day. My father took a good look at us. Then he sat me down on his lap and said something that I will never forget. He looked me straight in the eyes and said, 'Hana, everything that God made valuable in the world is covered and hard to get to. Where do you find diamonds? Deep down in the ground, covered and protected. Where do you find pearls? Deep down at the bottom of the ocean, covered up and protected in a beautiful shell. Where do you find gold? Way down in the mine, covered over with layers and layers of rock. You've got to work hard to get to them.' He looked at me with serious eyes. 'Your body is sacred. You’re far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too.'"

– Laila Ali

• "Men are extremely sensitive to being criticized by women,” Wu wrote. And it’s gaming and other homosocial worlds where men will feel particularly threatened if women try to join in and try to change the balance. That fear response shows up most acutely when games treat “adult” themes such as relationships and sex."

— The Most Sexist Video Game of All Time? by David Auerbach

• "We live in a society that’s sexist in ways it doesn’t understand. One of the consequences is that men are extremely sensitive to being criticized by women. I think it threatens them in a very primal way, and male privilege makes them feel free to lash out. / This is why women are socialized to carefully dance around these issues, disagreeing with men in an extremely gentle manner. Not because women are nicer creatures than men. But because our very survival can depend on it."
• "Paste Games editor Maddy Myers once told me, 'You don’t really recover from this kind of abuse. You just change.' She’s right. / Often, I’ll see people lashing out at women they perceive as too bitchy or too confrontational. They don’t understand that we are the sum of our experiences. The toxic environment causes us to change. / If people attack you online, you’re going to get defensive quickly. If people sexually harass you, you’re going to grow more inward, and more protective. It’s a very human reaction, and there is no way to face this daily reality without it changing who you are."
• "It’s telling that men in the gaming industry, or simply commentators, refuse to listen to the reality of these situations and try to help. They’d rather talk over women and convince themselves of a fictional reality that’s more comforting."

— No skin thick enough: The daily harassment of women in the game industry by Brianna Wu

• "What is happening here is that the protection of fans’ fragile fantasies automatically trumps the basic human right to a life outside that fantasy framework. […] The groups are not just selling music, they are selling a fantasy narrative. It’s one that everyone knows is fake, which is why it is imperative that fans’ suspension of disbelief be maintained at all costs — with severe punishments for those who step out of line. […] Fans buy into the narrative at an early stage. At the AKB48 theater in Akihabara, fans can watch the new members stumble, fluff lines and maybe cry a bit on stage. Gradually, though, they can see them leave the background and develop into full frontline stars. The fans and the group members take an emotional journey together, and even though it’s a journey along a set of rails determined by marketing, management and industrial factors, at least they can believe that the girls themselves are sincere. In order to be sincere, though, they cannot be ordinary girls. They cannot have lives outside the structured environment in which the fans experience them. […] the system of which (fans) are part — which believes that it has any right or say over the private lives of others — is what is really to blame. The deeper truth is that idol fan culture, as well as the closely related anime and manga fan culture, is institutionally incapable of dealing with independence in young women. It seeks out and fetishizes weaknesses and vulnerabilities and calls it moé, it demands submissiveness, endless tearful displays of gratitude, a lack of confidence, and complete control over their sexual independence. AKB48 takes this a step further by allowing its (largely male) fans to sit in annual judgment, voting members up or down in the group’s hierarchy. The danger is of this fantasy creeping out more widely into society: […] What will a 13-year-old girl think when she sees a humiliated member apologizing for natural human behavior?"

– Ian Martin, freelance writer for The Japan Times, on idol culture (with AKB48 as an example)

• "...that is the whole problem with this false notion of “sexually liberated” female characters: These aren’t those women. They’re how dudes want to imagine those women would be — what Wire creator David Simon called writing 'men with t*ts.' They read like men’s voices coming out of women’s faces. Or worse, they read like the straight girls who make out with each other at clubs, not because they enjoy making out with women but because they desperately want guys to pay attention to them. This is not about these women wanting things; it’s about men wanting to see them do things, and that takes something that really should be empowering — the idea that women can own their sexuality — and transforms it into yet another male fantasy. It takes away the actual power of the women and turns their 'sexual liberation' into just another way for dudes to get off. […] If you really want to support Starfire’s 'liberated sexuality' like she’s somehow a person with real agency, what people should really be campaigning for is more half-clothed dudes in suggestive poses to get drawn around her, since I’m sure that’s what she’d like to see. But people don’t really want that, do they? Because it’s not about what Starfire wants. It’s about what straight male readers want. And they want to see Starfire with her clothes falling off. […] When I read these comics and I see the way the female characters are presented, I don’t see heroes I would want to be. I don’t see people I would want to hang out with or look up to. I don’t feel like the comics are talking to me; I feel like they’re talking about me, the way both Jason Todd and Roy Harper talk about Starfire like two dudes high fiving over a mutual conquest. […] Female characters are only insatiable, barely-dressed aliens and strippers because someone decided to make them that way. It isn’t a fact. It isn’t an inviolable reality, especially in a comic book universe that has just been rebooted. In the end, what matters is what you choose to show people and how you show them, not the reasons you make up to justify it. Because this is comics, everybody. You can make up anything."

– Laura Hudson, editor-in-chief of ComicsAlliance, on the controversy of females depicted in DC Comics (such as Starfire's portrayal in Red Hood and the Outlaws)

• "Professor Peter Cohen argues that human beings have a deep need to bond and form connections. It’s how we get our satisfaction. If we can’t connect with each other, we will connect with anything we can find — the whirr of a roulette wheel or the prick of a syringe. He says we should stop talking about ‘addiction’ altogether, and instead call it ‘bonding.’ A heroin addict has bonded with heroin because she couldn’t bond as fully with anything else."

– The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think by Johann Hari

• "Never give up on the things that make you smile."

– Unknown

• "Two things define you. Your patience when you have nothing, and your attitude when you have everything."

– Unknown

• "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."

– African Proverb

• "A joke is often the hole through which truth whistles."

– Japanese Proverb

• "A son is a son until he takes a wife but a daughter is a daughter for the rest of your life."

– Irish Proverb

• "Be careful with your words. Once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten."

– Unknown

• "The bigger they are, the harder they fall."

– Unknown/Proverb

• "Reason may only reach the reasonable."

– Unknown

• "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

– Unknown (though credited to Eleanor Roosevelt)

• "You know, it's difficult with new people... even though I do this sort of thing I'm quite shy, many performers are very shy... and so, 'cause I don't have alcohol to cope, I sort of have language, so I end up saying, 'Well, this is a fun party! This is fun, isn't it! This is fun! Oh! How long have you two been together? Are you a couple? How did you get the sparkle out in your relationship?' Then they feel awkward and I can relax."

– _Simon Amstell (Comedian, as said on The Graham Norton Show; Season 11, Ep.14)

• "The adaptation of written language is intentional. The evolution of spoken language is not."

– Grainger (friend)

• "If you don't ask because you might be refused, you've already refused yourself."

― Unknown

• "If you don't try because you might get rejected, you've already rejected yourself."

― Me

• "A movie never follows scenes in the book exactly (which is fine). Even when the movie might come close to it though, the major themes of the book must translate well to the movie in order for the movie to be a great adaptation of the book. As long as the translation is done well, the movie will be a fine interpretation, no matter the differences."

– Me

• "Bad as in bad storytelling? There are so many ways to tell a bad story, whether it be execution (grammar, story structure, contrived or unrealistic situations, lack of continuity, etc.), plot, characters...

If you mean that then I totally understand you. There are unfortunately a lot of those people. They should be reading, not writing… However, what's good and what's bad, in my opinion, is mostly subjective. Those that create won't stop creating just because someone doesn't agree with their work. If you want to help, give criticism. It works better than opinionated negativity. If you don't care to help, I wouldn't recommend commenting. After all, if you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all." – Me