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

• 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 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

• There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • History
  • Happy

• All action is vicarious faith.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Faith
  • Action

• 'The crime,' said the Jacynth softly, 'is abstract and fundamental: the innate depravity of extinguishing life.'

  

  Jack Vance
  • Life

• In the mind there is no absolute or free will; but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause, which has also been determined by another cause, and this last by another cause, and so on to infinity.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Absolute

• When I see the hatred exacted at Mr. Obama - you know, he lowered your taxes, killed your number one bad guy and got your guys out of Iraq - I don't understand why he seems to inflame people so much. You know, unless, unless there's a race problem.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Guy
  • Problem

• I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange.

  

  Andrew Eldritch The Sisters of Mercy

• Writing for Mills and Boon taught me a lot of discipline. You have to produce books in a short time scale and four a year, and it teaches you a lot.

  

  Penny Jordan
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Discipline

• 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