#soc

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. ↗

— Dana Plato

#am #any #anything #because #developed

I think the whole nerves thing comes into play when we worry about what other people and society will think. ↗

— Dana Plato

#comes #i #i think #into #nerves

People have an awful lot of problems that society has put on them and a lot to work through because of it. ↗

— Dana Plato

#because #lot #people #problems #put

It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#access #availability #been #benefits #children

Women know the financial, social and physical costs of not having access to basic health care. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#basic #care #costs #financial #having

Ultimately I think what people care about, particularly on an issue like Social Security, is not really what's right and what's left but what's right and what's wrong. ↗

— John Podesta

#care #i #i think #issue #left

I'm going to do 'The Social Network Two: The Electric Boogaloo.' And I have a part in 'Beige Swan.' I'm going to be the lead, but I don't dance. I just do a lot of sitting down. It's too tiring to get up and dance around. That should be coming out in 20-never. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#coming #dance #down #electric #get

A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#civil #civil society #international #nations #new

Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#coerce #derives #knowledge #others #power

Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#assessment #criterion #insist #instead #largely