Quotes About Social

If a film has a social message, it is very important for me to know what the message is and how it's going to be delivered, but it's not something I look for all the time.

I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.

At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.

You were doing a TV show - you don't realise that you're also making social commentary at the same time.

I'm not extra sensitive to handshakes. I shake hands all the time.

This is the defining issue of our time. This is a make-or-break moment for the middle class and for all those who are fighting to get into the middle class.

We didn't have anything before Twitter that allowed a group of people roaming around a city to communicate instantly, in real time, and in a coordinated way, in a group.

The thing that is uncomfortable is when people kind of stare for a long time and point. That gets weird. Id much prefer someone to come up to me and say something.

I don't ever have time for friends or anything like that.

Largely, as a result of the policies and priorities of the Reagan administration, more people are becoming poor and staying poor in this country than at any time since World War II.

Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.

The real beauty of the time we're living through is that we can deploy our self-image in ways that can have radical social implications.

Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.

I feel like I need to start wearing a T-shirt saying 'This is not a photo opportunity'. People are so lovely but you do find that when you're out you spend 40% of your time posing for photographs.

The '80s were a really different time for kids.Technology has changed so much of how we stay in touch and keep tabs on people.

America is a remarkable place in that social attitudes change almost imperceptibly, and then you wake up the next day and they've changed. But they've been changing all the time.

Standing, standing, standing - why do I have to stand all the time? That is the main characteristic of social Washington.

A large portion of the weekend effects is explained by differences in the amount of time spent with friends or family between weekends and weekdays.

There are a lot of people out there who are exactly half extrovert and half introvert and they love to be extroverts as long as they have enough time to go off and figure it all out.

What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time.

Now is a time where social media allows people to be heard on a different level. Everyone is using their voice.

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.'

I'm real comfortable around people, and it took a long time for me to evolve to that point.

I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were.