With Twitter, it's a little harder to tell JOKES that somebody hasn't heard already. You have all these people out there sharing their OPINIONS and TELLING jokes in real time, and by the time you get on, somebody's already DONE some VERSION of what you're trying to do.
When people express opinions that DIFFER from yours, take it as a CHANCE to grow. Seek to understand over being UNDERSTOOD. Be curious, not defensive. The only way to disarm another human being is by listening.
I do not believe that ARTISTS or actors and PEOPLE should be out there like voicing their full-blown OPINIONS on politics because, let's face it, at the end of the DAY, I'm not that SMART of a guy.
For your own self-respect and sanity, your CREATIVE freedom, you have to be careful that you don't rely too much on other PEOPLE's OPINIONS of what you do because it can stunt and inhibit you.
I have been told too much - to TALK less, to keep my opinions to myself, to not SOUND intelligent - all this was told to me so that I could FIT in. But I never thought I fit in anyway. So if you don't fit in, at least STAND out.
Where an excess of POWER prevails, property of no sort is duly RESPECTED. No man is SAFE in his OPINIONS, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.