Below are two
examples of quotes I found on the internet; if they were actually
quoted (or misquoted) by the people credited for them. The fact these
comments made it to the WORLD is my case in point.
Firstly, the sad,
sad, sad, (and I hope misquoted) comment from fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, about
the gorgeous Middleton sisters (of British Royal Family fame) ...
"Kate Middleton has a nice silhouette and she is the
right girl for that boy," Lagerfeld said. "I like that kind of woman,
I like romantic beauties.”
"On the other hand, her sister struggles. I don't
like the sister's face. She should only show her back."
WHA’??????
To use the acronym .... OMG!!!! Do I need to explain how
awful this quote is?
Karl, if it is true; have a good strong think man.
The next quote is
the antithesis of all the negativity. A wonderful woman, Gretel Kileen (who
was the original host of the Big Brother series in Australia, and suffered from negative social media of her own) was asked to comment on
the new season of Big Brother. (My additional
comments are in red italics.)
"I choose to
guess it will be a great success because BB is a strong format and (new host) Sonia Kruger will be a terrific host. I
choose to be positive because I'm tired of Australians (any nationality) unhealthily wishing failure on one
another in vacuous displays of schadenfreude, a possible ironic consequence of
11 years of reality TV colliding with a nation suffering low self-esteem."
Go Grrl! And good luck to Sonia (although I won’t be
watching; not my type of tv).
To
paraphrase Howard Zinn (possibly channelling Karl L.)
‘If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do
something.’
Howard
may have been channelling Gretel K. when he wrote this...
‘If we remember those times
and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this
gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this
spinning top of a world in a different direction.’
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