I often wonder if I should adopt a cause to call my own or start tweeting inspirational messages. And when tragedy strikes and the world takes to social media, is it now my responsibility to respond with #RIPs and #prayfors?
I get home from work at six or seven. When I’m busy, I set my alarm for three, get out of bed at quarter past three. I have a cup of tea and read a magazine and take the dogs for a walk up the lane. Go through my text messages and reply to anything that needs it, then get my biking gear on ready to cycle to work.
The people that you see winning in life are just knocking on more doors. They’re just sending more messages. They’re just sending more resumes. They’re just calling more people. That is what makes you win.
I have great luck. I’m used to people dying and going away. Not used to it exactly – but I expect it. Like, whenever people go off on a trip, I save their phone messages because I think they might die.
I’ve had some nice messages after games from players who I haven’t spoken to before. I won’t name people and drop them in it, but I’ve had messages from opposition strikers and defenders saying that they respect and love the way I play, telling me to keep doing it and not to change the way I am.
The messages I promote and the way that I go about dealing with people is from a place of love.
Pop music has been the center of change, you know? And positive messages. I would love to get back to that place because I think we’ve lost it a little bit.
I think that the majority of messages are validating messages to confirm the survival of conscious. And many times that validation message is negative or sad.
Those who deny the existence of a supreme being have been turned into second-class citizens by a government that continuously sends messages that ‘real Americans’ believe in God.
Stop with the stupid messages. I don’t need a message that says, ‘Go on, you can do it today.’ What does that mean?!
I try to sneak a bit of education into the entertainment. We don’t preach to people, but we do try to give them very strong messages.
I’ve learned how much of an impact that music has on people. I get messages all the time from people telling me what my music means to them and what it has done to them.
The letters that say ‘I’m getting the messages you’re sending me through the television screen’ are not great. But those are few and far between, thank God. I get wonderful letters, and people send me artwork.
This politics is bound to be reflected in the work of a serious filmmaker. When I make a film, I try to tell a human story to the best of my ability. I do not set out either to preach messages or purely to entertain.
What’s cool is when people send me messages or tag me in their photos, which definitely happens more after a project comes out. The best part, I think, is that the DMs and tags are always from young girls, and reaching them is the most important thing for me.
The truth is, every movie is a message movie. It’s just that most movies have messages that are in lock step with the status quo.
As we continue to become a society of tweets, shorter and shorter messages, there’s great value in the contemplation and reflection that comes from reading a long body of work.
It makes me really proud to be able to use my art to spread positive messages around the world.
I don’t actually need a phone because wherever I go, it’s always pre-planned. I have never faced problems for not using a mobile phone, maybe because I am still not used to checking WhatsApp messages.
It was always quite negative messages on love I was given as a kid.
The day after my mistake at the World Cup, everyone had my number. I did not have a good time. Very extreme messages were sent to me, including death threats. And they made me think a lot about my family and my future.
We’re all bombarded with so many dietary messages that it’s hard to find time to sort through all this information, but we do have time to take a look at our kids’ plates.
Communication is something that I find if don’t do, I will go missing, I won’t be fully focused. If I’m constantly giving messages to the defenders not only do they know where they are but I am switched on and in the right position. It all links together.
We’re the party that’s fought for increased wages, fought for the union movement, fought to make sure that collective bargaining is not eviscerated, it’s strengthened. And when we communicate those messages, we succeed.
Obama has proved to be particularly adept at using the media to disseminate his administration’s messages, but he is a masterful orator. Bill Clinton, too.
Of course our music has a lot of positive messages and we try to reach out to kids our age or people younger because we feel we get motivation by songs.
The disturbed individual who believes himself to be Christ, or to receive messages from God, is something of a cliche in our society. Ever since Sigmund Freud, many people have associated religiosity with neurosis and mental illness.
I’m concerned about the insidious influence of the media’s bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters.
So many of my books, I don’t want to say they have messages, but they have important things to say.
Remember daydreams? No, of course you don’t. How could you? Three new text messages have just arrived, and another three, in a moment, will go out.
Church is definitely still present in my life. Every Sunday I’m tuned in and then throughout the week I read scriptures, I read motivational messages.
What I paint touches on foundational life values. Home, family, peacefulness. And one of the messages I try to constantly get across is, ‘Slow it down and enjoy every moment.’
My parents offered me the idea of ceilinglessness. There was no limit in terms of what was possible; no messages sent to me to say that I couldn’t do anything.
The theater is the place where people create ideas and send messages out, and you learn, and I think it’s a fair venue for disagreement and enlightenment.
In a way, you might say that David Duke is the son of Willie Horton. Duke is more overt, of course, but he’s really just pushing the same buttons and sending the same coded messages that the Horton ads did so effectively for the Bush campaign last year.
If someone wants to offer me some money to talk about something that I feel strongly about on Twitter – and I don’t feel it’s diminishing in any way my messages – I don’t see why not.
I just love everything that Disney and Pixar do. Not only do they do beautiful films, but they have great messages for kids.
People worry about Twitter. Twitter is banal. It’s 140-character messages. By definition, you can hardly say anything profound. On the other hand, we communicate. And, sometimes, we communicate about things that are important.
A lot of brands just push messages out on social media, but that’s not what social is about. Social is about engaging. It’s about a conversation. It’s about listening and then responding. It’s an ongoing conversation with our fan base.
I get messages from 21-year old white dudes who have just gotten out of an expensive college and say ‘Hey can I pick your brain?’ and I have nothing to say to them because A. They already have all the advantages and B. My advice would be the same as anyone else: Go do open mics.
One of the things that defined me is that I spoke in my songs very loudly, the negative messages, and I already managed to dominate commercial music.
If I was to base my opinion on Twitter, I’d be like, ‘Oh my God, I must be the most hated woman in Britain.’ But I go around the street, and despite all the abusive messages, not one person comes up to me and says anything other than nice things and ask for a picture.
It’s always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush messages to the public to claim credit for it.
I give off rather mixed messages about the law. On the one hand, I can honestly say I don’t miss working in a law office. On the other hand I do enjoy watching the law and while the profession may have its problems, I have sold zillions of books out of magnifying them.
I trust and use RakEM for my private messages and calls. Other messengers collected metadata about who I messaged, when and where – RakEM does not collect metadata, encrypts local files, and uses the strongest end-to-end encryption around.
We’ve patented the idea… of using the address book as a place to declare that you like a brand. By so doing, the brand has now got your permission to send you personal messages – it could be money off offers, coupons, promotions, just information, whatever is appropriate.
How I can be an active voice for gay people but also the music industry? This is the art we need right now. This is what we need right now. We’re in a renaissance, and we need people to rebel, come forth, and bring messages into art.
Everyone who is critical of Israeli policy is deluged by crazed messages intended to flood their email system or, more insidiously, passwords are accessed and messages sent out under their name! I’m sure it’s illegal. It’s also an effort to undermine free speech.
The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl in Sacramento managed to handle an average of 10,000 every 24 hours for a month.
I have to fight the impulse to use my phone as an alarm clock rather than leaving it in another room. If I don’t, I will wake up in the middle of the night and think, ‘I’ll check my messages. Or the number of my book on Amazon.’
