Kenneth Koch Quotes
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.
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All four majors are definitely a priority.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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In India, there's a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It's called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.
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I eat a lot of chocolate.
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I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
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People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.
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As much as I love art, there is no art as fine as the world we have been given.
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They are subhuman. They are the scum of the Earth. When you talk about Jews, you're scraping the bottom of the barrel of humanity.
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We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.
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Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.
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Once you've had your life burn down, it takes time to be a Phoenix.
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It takes a long time to publish a book.
