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[evelomaddict]

and to think that just yesterday someone posted

'great people discuss ideas, average people discuss others.'

[BellaPaprika]

On 5/30/2014 evelomaddict said:

and to think that just yesterday someone posted

'great people discuss ideas, average people discuss others.'

I think Gwyneth said that a while back.

[QueenDanceALot]

On 5/30/2014 focksie said:

On 5/30/2014 Hildegarde Withers said:

On 5/30/2014 KittyLouWhoToo said:

Doesn't she have a blog called "Goop"?

Good name for it, although "Cr-ap" might be a bit better.

You mean Poop!

OMG, yes, that's perfect!!!

Next time co-worker mentions Goop I'll correct her!!

[evelomaddict]

On 5/30/2014 BlueCollarBabe said:

On 5/30/2014 evelomaddict said:

and to think that just yesterday someone posted

'great people discuss ideas, average people discuss others.'

I think Gwyneth said that a while back.

i'm sure she has but someone here also said it.

[QueenDanceALot]

On 5/30/2014 BlueCollarBabe said:

When a vacuous celebrity compares a minor annoyance in her life to what is suffered by soldiers in combat, she is dissing the military because she's saying the two are therefore equal. My God, what a huge ego to go with that tiny brain! What she said was not "taken out of context".

Here is the full quote:

“You come across [online comments] about yourself and about your friends, and it’s a very dehumanizing thing. It’s almost like how, in war, you go through this bloody, dehumanizing thing, and then something is defined out of it,” she said. “My hope is, as we get out of it, we’ll reach the next level of conscience.”

ITA with you, BCB!

[tansy]

On 5/30/2014 evelomaddict said:

On 5/30/2014 BlueCollarBabe said:

On 5/30/2014 evelomaddict said:

and to think that just yesterday someone posted

'great people discuss ideas, average people discuss others.'

I think Gwyneth said that a while back.

i'm sure she has but someone here also said it.

It's an Eleanor Roosevelt quote. I can't remember who quoted her here the other day. Edited to add that it was Kitty Lou Who

[QueenDanceALot]

On 5/30/2014 evelomaddict said:

On 5/30/2014 BlueCollarBabe said:

On 5/30/2014 evelomaddict said:

and to think that just yesterday someone posted

'great people discuss ideas, average people discuss others.'

I think Gwyneth said that a while back.

i'm sure she has but someone here also said it.

I believe I did.

And I'm discussing her ideas in this thread. Or, more accurately, I'm taking issue with them.

[pistolino]

On 5/30/2014 BlueCollarBabe said:

When a vacuous celebrity compares a minor annoyance in her life to what is suffered by soldiers in combat, she is dissing the military because she's saying the two are therefore equal. My God, what a huge ego to go with that tiny brain! What she said was not "taken out of context".

Here is the full quote:

“You come across [online comments] about yourself and about your friends, and it’s a very dehumanizing thing. It’s almost like how, in war, you go through this bloody, dehumanizing thing, and then something is defined out of it,” she said. “My hope is, as we get out of it, we’ll reach the next level of conscience.”

...and I think the word she needed to use at the end would be consciousness, but maybe I'm wrong.

It's a shame she won't try to smooth this over by making a trip to see wounded warriors and what it truly means to be in a war, but such a thought is too complex for her tiny little mind.

She's just vile.

[QueenDanceALot]

It was an Eleanor Roosevelt quote.

But the quote actually was:

"Great minds discuss ideas.

Average minds discuss events.

Small minds discuss people."

Hammer away, whomever wants to hammer.

[Witchy Woman]

GP has yet to learn that speaking one's mind is highly overrated.

She just cannot help herself because she continues to believe she has something important to say.