Kenneth Cole Often people ask me about getting involved in service and philanthropy, and my first advice is: Make sure it’s real and it’s transparent. – Kenneth Cole Advice Quotes Involved Quotes People Quotes Philanthropy Quotes Real Quotes Service Quotes Transparent Quotes My first AIDS campaign was in 1985. There was this dark cloud, everybody was socially inspired – we hadn’t seen social consciousness like that since the ’60s – but most people were talking about hunger in Africa. Nobody was talking about this really ominous circumstance here in the U.S. because of this fear of stigma. If every shoe store in America stops selling shoes, no one’s going to go barefoot for 15, 20 years. No one needs shoes, for the most part. We have shoes; our problem is what to do with them.
Marc Jacobs One thing that is exciting about fashion is the surprise element. People don’t know what they want. They just know when they see it. – Marc Jacobs
David Nail I have learned from Twitter that you get that instant feedback about what people think about what you did. – David Nail
Barkha Dutt As women, many of us have internalised our lives as a prolonged version of boot camp, a sort of Darwinian call to toughen up or perish. As young women, we are terrified that men we consider our mentors can turn out to be monsters. – Barkha Dutt
Barry Hannah Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you… they’re a little away from you. – Barry Hannah
Gus Van Sant The media has gone through lots of things that make it a less foreign thing to have your lead character be gay. – Gus Van Sant
Martha Nussbaum The first thing you get from the humanities, when they’re well taught, is critical thinking. Philosophy in particular can play that role, not just in universities but in schools as well. – Martha Nussbaum
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