a business has mission statements. A slogan is designed to tease people. They first are hooked by the message and then tehy attribute the message back to you. Useful. I hook you with a message. Now you will find me to check out more of what I have to say.

I don't even have a mission statement. I did have someone make a logo, though, and we're still using it.

Actors are very often assumed erroneously to have the wisdom shown by the characters they play.
The operative word is the last one. It's just "play."
Actors are just people who sometimes have the ability to appearing convincingly to have talents they do not have in reality.
They should be appreciated for the acting ability as should all people for the talents they do have.
Some actors/actresses are affected negatively by the power they are given by the media attention and adulation they receive.
Sometimes they even act like idiots while acting the role of themselves.
Power corrupts even good actors and actresses.
It certainly has little in common with the effects of war on soldiers.

Actors are artists. I will listen to what they say about their art, if they are cogent and coherent. The moment they speak on any other topic, I know after the first sentence, sometimes even sooner if I want to hear any more. Ms. Paltrow didn't make it past the first few syllables.

Did someone compare them and say they were the same?

I agree with one of the commenters on the site - There's nothing "well-written" or "eloquent" about this. It's a condescending diatribe that fails to understand analogy, human suffering, or what Paltrow was even trying to say. To put it frankly, she said people on the internet are mean, and was proven right.

Exactly Herb. They know their craft and a very few know what life away from the camera is all about. It's one reason I've always liked Harrison Ford. He worked as a carpenter and contractor before being "discovered", pretty much down to earth in his life off screen too. Not perfect, but who is? This lady should stick to what she knows, acting like a real person.

Gwyneth Paltry - another total embarrassment
for America!

Yes.

Not all words have the same value. You can't compare a twitter comment to the Constitution of the United States and say they are both words that come from pens so they are both mightier than the sword. And the sticks and stones saying only goes for insults not legislative acts.

Toooooo WAKE UP AMERICA! (It's kind of self explanatory... WAKE UP!) :)

lol the fact that you are even asking...

"Gwyneth's great twitter turmoil..." hahahahaha

You have a slogan? What's its purpose?

Are we back to that pen is mightier than the sword thing? Sometimes words result in actions. Sometimes good actions sometimes bad actions. They can both include a sword. So I guess you could say words can be a double edged sword. However, in the context of Gwyneth's great twitter turmoil we're talking about words that should be ignored, they have no meaning. Her hurt feelings are meaningless. The people who spend their time typing them are meaningless. Now we're back to adult aged people behaving like 10year olds. Maybe I should change my slogan from WAKE UP AMERICA to GROW UP AMERICA!

The last line was powerful "sticks and stones can break my bones, but words(will never be)..... close to what war is."

I was moved, but then I thought about it. No, words are more powerful. Not some twit of a word bite, but words get us into wars. Words are the way we shape most of our knowledge. Words are how we start a new nation and also how we destroy a free nation from within. Words are history.
Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words...start revolutions

yes, I completely agree that her comparison was extremely sheltered and immature.
But I do not want to glorify being a soldier. I have tremendous respect for our vets and armed forces and how they keep us safe, but an Ayn Rand or an Aristotle or a John Locke are much more important to our freedom in the long run.

Yes, they do start them. But they are not war. They can spark one, end one, exacerbate relations between nations, describe wars, but never understand them. And their meaning can only underestimate the ultimate damage resulting from a soldier's wounds, visible or otherwise.

She is a fool for thinking that a mean tweet and a war can compare.