All Quotes

"I don’t have a lot of time to myself, but I am on my own when I go to my studio which is my thinking time. I lock the door behind me, make a coffee, sit down and think: “Right, what’s on my list for today"

"I’ve re-bought Marianne Faithfull’s autobiography Faithfull so many times, as I keep loaning it to people. I am fascinated by women who are strong but don’t hide their flaws. She forged her own path and is brutally honest about her mistakes"

"I recently discovered that I’m a Virgo after an astrologer read my chart. I always thought I was a Leo as I’m on the cusp. When I saw this ring with its tiny diamond Virgo constellation in New York, I had to buy it. It makes sense to me now why I’m so analytical"

"There is an adult choice piece here and there are plenty of adults who still choose to smoke despite decades of reasons not to. That needs to be respected at some point"

"This photo of my siblings [Nic, now 36, and John and Jim, both 29] and I was taken in the pre-digital age when I was about 19. We’ve all gone on to have our own YouTube channels, but I love pictures like this because they captured the moment and were not polished – unlike social media today"

"There's a lot of incorrect information out there. Most of our subscribers don't have the intention of becoming makeup artists, they're just looking for daily techniques for themselves. Aspiring makeup artists may enjoy our videos, but they understand that they need proper training and on-set experience."

"Social media is this massive digital concept I can't fully wrap my head around—who knows what the future holds? I'm not pinning my livelihood on it and I'm trying to make the right decisions for myself and my family. We just want to keep producing high quality content with a credible and authentic voice that's enjoyable for our subscribers to watch."

"My advice? Stay under the radar. Keep to yourself, keep working and stay polite. Never bite! This is a small industry and people talk—your reputation can instantly be ruined with a little gossip."

"Having a glamorous mum was my first insight into changing the face with makeup. When I got a little older I found out that my aunt was a makeup artist working with superstar celebs. My mind was made up!"

"“My first beauty memory is watching my mum apply blue mascara.”"

"“Initially, I wanted to be a singer.”"

""When I started filming makeup tutorials, YouTube had only been around for one year.”"

"“I’m a makeup commitment phobe. I love trying different looks and products. I have about 1500 products and brushes I rotate based on my mood.”"

"When we think about income inequality, when we think about what the future looks like for our communities, [troubled schools are] no longer just an isolated problem. It’s a problem that we as Americans have to face, and if we don’t, we’re going to have a workforce that’s poorer and less prepared."

"Radical empathy is not about you and what you think about a situation that you have never been in and probably never will be. It is a kindred connection from a place of deep knowing that opens your spirit to the pain of another as they perceive it."

"Be joyful warriors and constant justice seekers."

"What’s the ‘one thing’ you do for your child? Children need everything, not one thing."

"The best thing for a child is for parents (to) be consistent and have what they need. This is like the total opposite of that, in some ways. Because the kids are 100% traumatized. Parents don’t know and have no consistency."

"Well, I think the environment, the milieu within which we do our work as people who care about the human-centered design of technologies, platforms, products and services, long-term value, sustainable engagement, all of the things that we care about, the mil within which we sit and we work is very important."

"So the things I think about are what are the tools that we use both for production of experiences, you know, the building of an app, the building of a service, the service design model, but also the evaluation."

"How do we, once something is launched, how do we evaluate what to improve for whom and how and in what timeframe? So the entire sort of design process from initiation through needs finding to prototyping to product innovation, to implementation potentially at scale, to looking at the product or platform that is established."

"How do we understand where we’re getting it right and for whom and where we’re not and where we want to invest."

"How do you get the data you need to make a persuasive argument with examples that can actually mean that we have long-term high value, sustainable experiences for people."

"I started working in HCI when I started building “programmable user models”, what we affectionately called “PUM”s."

"There are always challenges when one is a member of a minority, and that is doubled when that minority is not the one which has had the institutionalized power for generations"

"I have faced challenges. I am thankful that in my personal situation I haven’t had too many really challenging issues, but it is always a struggle."

"I am happy that all around me there is growing awareness that there are many ways to be effective. Traits typically associated with being socialized as a woman are being recognized as positive now."

""If you give designers and developers better tools, and address what they need to make great products, then you give them the space to be more creative and to spend more time thinking about who they are designing and developing for,” she says.“They can then be focused on the impact and outcome of what they are building.”"

"“I am a big fan of understanding people and I’d say every step along [my career] has been motivated by understanding more deeply how people act and interact.""

""I have been called the David Attenborough of technology design.”"

"We see negative results of technology because not enough weight was put on the potential social impacts when evaluating the technology’s potential. A challenge, in the positive sense, is trying to get people to understand that any technology that’s designed and then released is a socially impactful technology, as well as a deep technical achievement."

"“One of the most obvious upsides is the ability to split major household expenses — like rent or mortgage, utilities and internet — among more people.” Nadaq, 2025"

""To avoid putting yourself in a position where you might overspend, consider withdrawing your budget in cash or taking a debit card out that only has the set amount for the purchase transferred onto it. When doing this, you are much more likely to track your spending compared to when you are just tapping contactless and will be aware of when you’ve reached your cap for the night." – Supermoney, 2024"

""It’s no surprise that many across the UK are rethinking their holiday plans this summer. With rising living costs and economic uncertainty, even the idea of a break can feel out of reach." – Crave Mag, 2025"

"It is already on the wane, eclipsed by the enlarging orb of reason, and the luminous revolutions of America and France."

"The difference between a republican and a courtier with respect to monarchy, is that the one opposes monarchy, believing it to be something; and the other laughs at it, knowing it to be nothing."

"Magna Charta, as it was called, ... was no more compelling the government to renounce a part of its assumptions. It did not create and give powers to government in the manner a constitution does; but was, as far as it went, of the nature of a re-conquest, and not of a constitution; for could the nation have totally expelled the usurpation, as France has done its despotism, it would then have had a constitution to form."

"Voltaire, who was both the flatterer and the satirist of despotism, took another line. His force lay in exposing and ridiculing the superstitions which priest-craft, united with state-craft, had interwoven with governments. It was not from the purity of his principles, or his love of mankind (for satire and philanthropy are not naturally concordant), but from his strong capacity of seeing folly in its true shape, and his irresistible propensity to expose it, that he made those attacks. They were, however, as formidable as if the motive had been virtuous; and he merits the thanks rather than the esteem of mankind."

"Man cannot, properly speaking, make circumstances for his purpose, but he always has it in his power to improve them when they occur..."

"I [...] could not avoid reflecting how wretched was the condition of a disrespected man."

"The election that followed, was not a contested election, but an animated one. The candidates were not men, but principles. Societies were formed in Paris, and committees of correspondence and communication established throughout the nation, for the purpose of enlightening the people, and explaining to them the principles of civil government; and so orderly was the election conducted, that it did not give rise even to the rumor of tumult."

"They began to consider the Aristocracy as a kind of fungus growing out of the corruption of society, that could not be admitted even as a branch of it..."

"It lost ground from contempt more than from hatred; and was rather jeered at as an ass, than dreaded as a lion. This is the general character of aristocracy, or what are called Nobles or Nobility, or rather No-ability, in all countries."

"Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it."

"Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of Government. Instead, therefore, of exclaiming against the ambition of kings, the exclamation should be directed against the principle of such governments; and instead of seeking to reform the individual, the wisdom of a nation should apply itself to reform the system."

"That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations, is as shocking as it is true; but when those who are concerned in the government of a country, make it their study to sow discord and cultivate prejudices between Nations, it becomes the more unpardonable."

"Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, — and all it wants, — is the liberty of appearing. The sun needs no inscription to distinguish him from darkness; and no sooner did the American governments display themselves to the world, than despotism felt a shock and man began to contemplate redress."

"If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenue and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute."

"It appears to general observation, that revolutions create genius and talents; but those events do no more than bring them forward. There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition, to the grave. As it is to the advantage of society that the whole of its faculties should be employed, the construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity which never fails to appear in revolutions."

"It is on this system that the American government is founded. It is representation ingrafted upon democracy. It has fixed the form by a scale parallel in all cases to the extent of the principle. What Athens was in miniature America will be in magnitude. The one was the wonder of the ancient world; the other is becoming the admiration, the model of the present. It is the easiest of all the forms of government to be understood and the most eligible in practice; and excludes at once the ignorance and insecurity of the hereditary mode, and the inconvenience of the simple democracy."