Karyn Kusama Quotes

I don't get to make many features. It's not like that's something I can just snap my fingers and make happen.

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• I can't do anything in moderation.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Anything
  • Moderation

• But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Strong

• The cultural war of words has actually been won by the most dispossessed people in the Western world, the urban American blacks.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • World
  • American

• It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Up
  • May
  • More

• Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Play
  • Mozart

• I'm not in the business of changing policies. I hope to inform, not form, decisions.

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • Business
  • Hope
  • Decisions

• The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Poetry
  • Special
  • Japanese

• I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Remember
  • Daughter
  • Driver

• That's the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter. First you have to find one.

  

  Pat Sajak
  • Trying
  • Find
  • Influence

• Life in New York can be so, I don't know, chaotic, overwhelming, busy, frantic, and often, seniors can easily get overlooked.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Life
  • New York
  • Busy

• God is decisively drawn to the humble.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • God
  • Humble
  • Drawn

• Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get answered. Because they have the internet. No matter what the question is, someone will answer their question.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Up
  • Question
  • Morning

• Because the Republicans are never going to turn on Trump so long as he still has his base, and he will continue to have his base so long as this idea that he is standing up for workers, it remains intact. And the only way that that gets eroded is if it isn't just about Russia all the time, but is also about those economic betrayals.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Time
  • World
  • Free

• For me to own land in Detroit, it was a badge of honor, and it was support for the city.

  

  Manuel Moroun
  • Support
  • City
  • Honor

• I cannot step into any day without help. I have a fantastically engaged husband who is very present for his children and our family life. We've got a brilliant nanny, other help from parents-in-law, godparents, friends. Also, I've had incredible women around me in the business.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Life
  • Women
  • Children

• I haven't done the profoundly impactful work many TED speakers have.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Work
  • Done
  • Many

• Many a bard's untimely death Lends unto his verses breath; Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Death
  • Song
  • Growing

• I'm a visual thinker. With almost all of my writing, I start with something that's visual: either the way someone says something that is visual or an actual visual description of a scene and color.

  

  Gerald Vizenor
  • Writing
  • Scene
  • Description

• I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Work
  • Ideas
  • Fast

• We are taking close to $10 a CD the way we are doing it, and I think that is a fair amount to split up between five guys. Each of us makes like two bucks a record.

  

  Neal Schon
  • Up

• At 13, I loved how so many of my peers sang and played acoustic guitar, so I started recording videos with covers of famous songs and posting them online.

  

  Shawn Mendes
  • Famous

• He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression, and a victim without murmuring. He was a public officer without vices; a private citizen without wrong; a neighbor without reproach; a Christian without hypocrisy, and a man without guile. He was a Caesar, without his ambition; Frederick, without his tyranny; Napoleon, without his selfishness, and Washington, without his reward.

  

  Benjamin Harvey Hill
  • Friend
  • Christian
  • Soldier

• I don't get to make many features. It's not like that's something I can just snap my fingers and make happen.

  

  Karyn Kusama