Kenny Scharf Quotes

I'm constantly doing new stuff. I'm always excited. I'm a one-man tornado.

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• There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I love the folk-rock of the Seventies and the pop of the Eighties.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Rock
  • Pop
  • Seventies

• If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Numbers

• What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Important
  • Military
  • Budget

• I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Friends
  • Help
  • Christian

• A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

  

  Fawn M. Brodie
  • Power
  • Passion
  • Politics

• I want to be a positive influence. I want to be someone who they want to call in and want here consistently, regardless of my role.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Want
  • Positive
  • Influence

• But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.

  

  Jack Markell
  • Good
  • Government
  • Ideas

• It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • People
  • History
  • Nice

• I'm feminine, but I wouldn't say that I'm girly in any way at all.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Way
  • Say
  • Girly

• The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • Together
  • Magic

• Men think for themselves when they’re men.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Men

• It’s not easy to know what is true for you or me at twenty-two, my age. But I guess I’m what I feel and see and hear, Harlem, I hear you.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • True
  • Age

• It’s easy to lose your reputation, it’s easy to lose your friends, to lose their confidence, than to regain it.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Friends
  • Confidence

• Look for competence not claims.

  

  Anthony de Mello

• In'ards, n. pl. The stomach, heart, soul, and other bowels.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Heart
  • Soul

• I feel like there's a lot of beauty in the darkness of Narrow Stairs, but that's not really a place I'm ready to go to for a while. I'm interested in taking a different approach and having the next record be different in tone - I'm just not interested in making another dark, dark album.

  

  Ben Gibbard Death Cab for Cutie
  • Different
  • Dark

• Only the most uncritical minds are free from doubt.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Free
  • Doubt

• There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how they will be seen by others through their work. When you create, you aspire to do justice to yourself, to remake yourself, and there is always the fear that you will expose the very thing that you hoped to transform.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Work
  • Book
  • Fear

• The spirit of social computing is the concept of leaving value in your wake.

  

  Bradley Horowitz
  • Value
  • Spirit
  • Concept

• Technology isn't simply addictive - it's addictive because it's a servant to business incentives. There are huge departments in these companies that are devoted to this and staffed by incredibly talented people who have skills that could be put to socially beneficial projects but who are now trying to find out how to make you click and how to maximize your time on a certain site, or encourage teenagers to "friend" more products and constantly engage with them.

  

  Astra Taylor
  • People
  • Trying
  • Technology

• The best comedy to me - and again, I grew up with comedy since I was a baby, so I've seen it all - is when you exaggerate the truth, like Richard Pryor did, you understand?

  

  Pauly Shore
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Comedy

• The purpose of Plato, or of Aristotle, as Al-Farabi conceived of it, is sufficiently revealed in this seemingly conventional praise of philosophy.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Purpose
  • Philosophy

• I'm constantly doing new stuff. I'm always excited. I'm a one-man tornado.

  

  Kenny Scharf