I think technology really increased human ability, but technology cannot produce compassion.
You want to fly in jets, and I just want to fly" -Baby Carlyle
She was doing that thing some people do when they act nice and chipper and interested, while just below the surface they’re thinking really mean thoughts, and you can never call them on it because they’d just accuse you of being paranoid.
Recently my publicist asked me for a college photo, and I realize how chubby I looked. I know this sounds totally shallow, but my advice is don't fall prey to the freshmen fifteen!
Back in my days as a children's book editor, my superiors caught on to the fact that teenagers were using the Internet to gossip about each other, and thought it might be nifty to develop a series of books about an anonymous high-school blogger who gossips about her classmates. The concept was passed on to me.
It's physics. Pure physics, I'm falling fast and faster still. So fall with me. Fall down with me. And stay.
And who am I? That's one secret I'll never tell. . . You know you love me. XOXO, Gossip Girl
It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.
I've never gotten enough credit!
If Al Gore loses his brazen attempt to win on the dimples, one reason will be that he finally convinced enough Republicans to fight like Democrats.
To take on the question of race in America and believe that you could transform this country so that it would actually be a place that was welcoming for everyone that was here, including dealing with the history of slavery and the kind of oppression this country is based on, that's an amazing moment to begin to find your own political ideals.