Kenneth Tynan Quotes

A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

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• Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Life
  • Money
  • Funny

• I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Work
  • Want
  • Capitalism

• I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • Good
  • Think
  • Doing

• The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Men
  • May
  • Problem

• Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Old
  • Italian
  • Saying

• When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Heart
  • Write
  • Get

• I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Women
  • Want
  • Small

• If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Women
  • Government
  • Politics

• I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.

  

  Beck
  • Kind
  • Like
  • Personality

• Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Rich
  • Constitution

• I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Music
  • Way
  • Doing

• In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Children
  • Kids
  • House

• I really don't like confrontations. One of the reasons I'm retiring is that I'm tired of hurting people's feelings.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Tired

• Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • You
  • Tell
  • Outside

• I was a hacker of sorts. Not a mind 'reader,' exactly; more a mind 'radar,' in tune with the workings of the aether. I could sense the nuances of dreamscapes and rogue spirits. Things outside myself. Things the average voyant wouldn't feel.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Mind
  • Myself
  • Feel

• The third-down sacks are critical ones, 'cause that's getting off the field.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Cause
  • Getting
  • Off

• In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Simple

• Indeed, willingness to challenge professional economists and other experts is a foundation stone of democracy. If all we have to do is to listen to the experts, what is the point of having democracy?

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Democracy
  • Challenge
  • Professional

• Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I cook all the time. It's a passion of mine. Mostly, I eat clean, unprocessed food, a lot of vegetables, and protein. I work out daily; at home, I row and do yoga and P90x. At the gym I work out with my friend and trainer Ben Dussault at the Anchored Social Club, focusing on balance and strength. Whenever I can get outside, I love stand-up paddle boarding, surfing, and cycling.

  

  Damon Runyon
  • Time
  • Passion
  • Mine

• The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute.

  

  Ayumi Hamasaki
  • Work
  • Way
  • Minute

• Everyone has their own experiences with song. It means one thing to me and it means something entirely different to somebody else. I have a song called 'Apple Cherry' which is a song about unrequited love and to this couple in London, they fell in love to this song. The girl in the relationship called me and said she wanted to propose to her girlfriend could you sing 'Apple Cherry' while I do it? I was like 'Really? That's not a love song about getting together'.

  

  NAO
  • Different
  • Couple
  • Propose

• With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.

  

  Cara Buono
  • People
  • Time
  • Like

• A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

  

  Kenneth Tynan
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