Even after he was gone, I still loved my father. I looked Norwegian, like him, with a long face, strong jaw, thin mouth, and flashing eyes. And, like him, I was verbal, easygoing, and low-key on the surface, and, deep down, proud, socially paranoid, full of self-loathing, and prone to rage at injustice.
Performers often can be quite socially inept, you know? And even great comedians are like that.
Over the past several decades, a growing number of investors have been choosing to put their money in funds that screen companies for their environmental and labor records. Some socially responsible investors are starting to add free expression and privacy to their list of criteria.
What today’s business reality makes clear is that brands cannot survive in a society that is failing economically, socially, ethically, and morally.
You cannot deal with a city if it’s not socially integrated.
I think of feminism as a socially just and imaginative world.
I think that more flow of information, the ability to stay connected to more people makes people more effective as people. And I mean, that’s true socially. It makes you have more fun, right. It feels better to be more connected to all these people. You have a richer life.
Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.
Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.
I don’t know anything about tech, but I do know something about slightly socially crippled and overly cerebral guys.
In ‘The Future and Its Enemies,’ I argue that individual creativity and enterprise are not only personally satisfying but socially good, producing progress and happiness. For celebrating creativity and happiness, I have been called a fascist by critics on both coasts.
There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.
For some people, the highlight of their entire month could be going out and eating a pizza or watching a movie at a multiplex, and here I am visiting four countries in a month. So, in that way, movies have made me socially aware. I now know how simple people live their lives.
Fiscally, I’m very conservative… others say that I’m socially moderate. As a former judge, I listen to all the facts, and I make a decision as to what I believe is in the best interest of the state.
When I make my socially conscious songs, I go hard with the lyrical content; I go hard with the imagery.
I have songs – even from my first album, I’ve always been on some socially conscience/love whatever music, you know?
I only come out and interact socially and even speak only when need be for work or other social commitments.
Writing requires an intense inner focus, and sometimes you need to express outward, physically or socially.
Come forward as servants of Islam, organise the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.
People don’t mind insulting the tall. We’re supposed to be fine with being awkward and skinny. I’m very easy to psychoanalyse. I was a gangly, awkward teenager who could make people laugh and thought that was a way to be socially more comfortable.
Entertainment shows make a living on behind-the-scenes stuff that can now be doled out socially. When we see it, we’re like, ‘Uh oh.’
Socially, the Cuban revolution created an education system and health service that remain the envy of much of the neo-liberal world.
Over the past 20 years, I have presented many science programmes on BBC1. But none is, I think, more socially important, or of more human interest, than this ongoing series of ‘Child of Our Time.’
It seems to be that southern Europeans are just more intimate socially, whereas I like a lot of personal space – like, a mile from the nearest person is fine for me.
I guess the thing is that we remained huge friends after the original Phantom movie, when we decided it wouldn’t take place and we just saw each other socially over the years so we were friends.
I was thrust into an adult world very quickly, and that can make anyone somewhat socially maladjusted to dealing with people your own age. But I wouldn’t trade any of it.
I was just starting out, trying to become a screenwriter, and I became the Austin slam champion three times. For a nerdy, kind of a socially awkward guy, that did wonders for my self esteem.
The first album was a coming-of-age album – I don’t like the phrase, but when you listen to it, you can tell I was having a hard time, that I wasn’t socially relating to people.
It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
We live in a world economically, socially, and culturally dependent on science not only functioning well, but being wisely applied.
But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.
There was a time that I would have carried a briefcase and worn a monocle were it to even border on socially acceptable.
Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.
I’m just a Trump supporter who is fiscally conservative, socially liberal, and refuses to kowtow to the PC Left and their silly fads.
Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thing was I developed no special skills. I don’t have any resentment because I am a performer and I’ve always felt that, but it did take its toll socially.
Socially, I think I’m quite comfortable; I enjoy chatting to people… but I do have my quirks.
If I see an actor in a role that is really terrifying, no matter how many times I meet him socially, I’m still frightened of him. I think he’s going to hit me.
Folklore provides a socially sanctioned outlet for the discussion of the forbidden and taboo.
I had to deal with being somewhat of an outcast because it’s not socially acceptable to be a struggling musician. There have been times where I’ve felt sorry for the person I was dating. I felt she deserved better.
I think temptation is ever present to become something that you think is more socially acceptable.
Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture – they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit.
I wanted to do a movie about being really good at something, yet being socially awkward and not as advanced in your personal life as you are in your creative life.
In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then people not having socially appropriate responses, having people denying the drama by failing to react to it, and that’s a really classic form of humor.
I’m not particularly interested in my phone. I’m interested in human contact. I think phones have created a certain social incapacity; it’s made people socially deficient.
I knew David Benioff a bit socially. I knew his wife, Amanda Peet. He’s a smart guy, so I always sought him out at dinner parties.
Mindfulness helps us freeze the frame so that we can become aware of our sensations and experiences as they are, without the distorting coloration of socially conditioned responses or habitual reactions.
It should go without saying that there are as many working-class people who hold socially liberal views as there are public-school bigots.
When you share work, and you have the opportunity of seeing people you like doing what they do best, and you also interchange socially with them, it’s very addictive.
The public/private partnerships are taking various forms in India. It is individuals who are socially oriented are setting up schools. They’re setting up colleges. They’re setting up universities. They’re setting up primary-education schools in the villages, particularly the villages their original families came from.
‘The Outsider’ is a culmination of a lot of things I’ve been working diligently toward as a recording artist. Hopefully it will render my past pigeonholing obsolete while positioning me more solidly as a socially conscious American singer/songwriter. Wouldn’t that be entertaining?
The truth is, I am conservative, but socially, I’m very liberal.
I’ve always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy.
I haven’t seen much socially redeeming about religion. I’m an atheist. I don’t here want to get into the Hitchens- or Dawkins-style attack on religion. I was raised on that. It’s boring.
If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won’t have the opportunity to have conversations with someone who has a different social background than you.
Black Lives Matter is the culmination of racial divide. They’re nothing more than the last socially acceptable hate group in America.
When you see in this country and every other part of the world the huge pay disparity – in Hollywood, in every profession in the U.K., globally – and you see what is happening to women in every country socially and culturally, you can’t not be a feminist.
