Quotes About Society

Being gay and being a woman has one big thing in common, which is that we both become invisible after the age of 42. Who wants a gay 50-year-old? No one, let me tell you.

I don't have the looks of angel, I don't have the body of a goddess, I'm kind of invisible.

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.

Women become invisible as they age; men become impotent.

I never invite idiots to my house.

There's something about a woman's life choices that invites commentary, whether it's been invited or not.

I'm vociferously against any ban in the society. You have to educate people instead. When you ban something, you invoke in them the curiosity to find more about that.

Super blessed to be in the position I'm in. To be able to inspire people to do what I'm doing and choose a career path that doesn't involve going to school, or like following society.

Those of us involved in football must be aware of the power we have to help. We also have a responsibility to return to society all that society has given to us.

Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike.

First of all, the American people are inundated with advertisement after advertisement of you buy, buy, buy. You've got to have the latest thing. The iPad 1 isn't any good anymore, you've got to have the iPad 2. The iPhone 4, now you've got to have iPhone 4S. Now you've got to have the 5b, now you've got to have the 6c.

I don't know if anybody thought about how much impact the iPhone could have on society.

When I go to Iran, I see... that there are all different shades and colors in Iran, from atheist to religious zealot. So Iran is no different than any other country. I mean, they are connected with the rest of the world.

By 2007, Iraqi society had completely collapsed.

I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.

Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.

Why are women always described as 'desperate,' while men are just... irrational?

Men are irrelevant.

You can't talk about life without talking about politics. You have to have both. If you're just a political person, you're going to burn out. If you, as an artist, are just focused inward, you're going to eventually be irrelevant.

We live in a funny time. If you don't go corporate, you can't compete. You're relegated as irrelevant. People used to admire that.

Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids and family and friends, and I don't like bad things. I don't think they're funny, and it's irresponsible to make movies that don't show you how that's not good.

There are bad dudes. There are also irresponsible women.