Shorthanding Quotes

#1. In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennifer Lopez, movies bombed, therefore he must be a sort of thoughtless dilettante, solipsistic consumer blahblahblah. It's hard to shake those sort of narratives.

Ben Affleck

#2. We have a prime minister, I'm the foreign minister, I'm trying to get on with the job of doing Australia's foreign policy.

Kevin Rudd

#3. (I) just had to show there's life in the old dog yet. (You) don't have to go out and shoot me.

Billy Idol

#4. Make your church a context where parents know that the right response to their teenagers is never to reject them as human beings, never to throw them out.

David P. Gushee

#5. A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.

Harriet Martineau

#6. When I try to describe how I feel when you hold me, I get butterflies, I hear lullabies, it's hard to explain
like the scent of a rose or the sound of the rain. It's too precious and too wonderful to give it a name.

Christina Aguilera

#7. Set your sail to the big world, to the big ports but never forget your little world, your little port!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. Don't be fooled into turning to Communism looking for food.

Jomo Kenyatta

#9. Err on the side of awesome.

Brandon Sanderson

#10. If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery