Lionel Shriver Quotes

Overly vigorous investigations of ominously ill-defined 'bullying' can themselves constitute a form of bullying.

Lionel Shriver

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• You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Important
  • Money
  • Success

• I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • World
  • Today
  • Light

• If I'm in work mode and going to meetings, I'll make an effort and dress up, but when I'm at home or just chilling, I'm in beanies and jeans and sneakers.

  

  Maia Mitchell
  • Up
  • Work
  • Home

• At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Night
  • Dressing
  • Outfit

• Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • You
  • Sometimes
  • Jump

• I think all these pop cultural media often reflect conversations we're having in the real world at that moment in time. I think one of the big conversations we're having as a culture is we thought we'd solved sexism and racism, and we're realizing more and more that we haven't.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Golf

• Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Movie
  • House
  • Day

• I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Up
  • Music
  • Soul

• Art was what I originally started out to do and music came second at first. I had a year at art college but I left because it was too much like school. I give all my paintings away to people I like.

  

  Cat Stevens
  • People
  • Music
  • School

• You gotta have a swine to show you where the truffles are.

  

  Edward Albee

• Just like you need to strengthen your core physically with exercise, you also need to strength your core spiritually.

  

  Anne Graham Lotz
  • Exercise

• When I kept a diary, I realised that it was all moanings and depression, and I think that is quite common.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Depression

• I drank too much, only champagne.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Champagne

• I just need to figure out how to grow without compromising.

  

  Elizabeth Olsen

• My mom was always very, very careful with my mind: what I saw and didn't see.

  

  Dominick Cruz
  • Mind
  • Mom

• I would snack on crisps and chocolate and my meals weren't the best. I ate lots of steak with creamy sauces, chips and peas, washed down with wine and a pudding.

  

  Jennifer Ellison
  • Wine
  • Chocolate

• The thing about going back to El Paso, it's overwhelming sometimes. I look at the support that I get and the success that I've had, and I can't walk anywhere without being spotted. My hair might be the biggest crime in this situation.

  

  Khalid
  • Success
  • Support
  • Hair

• For several days in July of 2012, Greenland surface ice cover melted more than at any time in 30 years of satellite observation. During that month, an estimated 97% of the ice sheet thawed.

  

  Brian Schatz
  • Time

• As far as from a standpoint of success, the only person who is in a position to make a claim like that sort [for the 'King Of The South' title] would be Lil Wayne - as far as success from a numbers standpoint. As far as longevity and success, that's the only person I feel like can say that.

  

  T.I.
  • Success
  • King

• I think the sooner that all of us in society stop accepting any type of bullying or harassment from other people - in spite of people's social standing or net worth or whatever it is - the sooner it will stop.

  

  Jason Priestley
  • People
  • Society
  • Stop

• Bullying can be physical, verbal or emotional. Words and threats are just as painful as fists, especially with social media these days. For those of you who don't know, I was actually bullied as a young boy on one occasion.

  

  Derek Hough
  • Words
  • Boy
  • Emotional

• That is the biggest form of bullying ever, the paparazzi. Printing lies, making accusations, it's just bullying.

  

  Mila Kunis
  • Form
  • Bullying
  • Paparazzi

• Overly vigorous investigations of ominously ill-defined 'bullying' can themselves constitute a form of bullying.

  

  Lionel Shriver
  • Bullying