Kathy Acker Quotes

We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things.

Kathy Acker

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• I landed the female lead role on 'Chuck' within three days of landing in L.A., so it was a little overwhelming, and I definitely felt like I got thrown into the deep end.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Deep
  • End
  • Lead

• Indian cinema is no more limited to audiences in India. We have viewers all around the world, and hence, understanding the global perspective is a must. Cinema Beyond Boundaries would get the viewers and the filmmakers together and would help us in serving them with good quality cinema.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • World
  • Good
  • Together

• I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Why
  • Think
  • Everyone

• It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • Work
  • Real
  • Me

• We never thought 'Say Something' would be a holiday song. I'm still surprised that it's resonating at this time of year. Maybe that's why it's working so well - it balances out all the joy.

  

  Ian Axel
  • Time
  • Why
  • Song

• I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Think

• If you listen to a Deadmau5 record or a Skrillex record, I really enjoy that stuff because, as aggressive sounding as the Skrillex records are, they're still musical, and that's why they have such a broad appeal.

  

  Kaskade
  • Why
  • You
  • Enjoy

• Most of us tend to be swayed by what we read. Judges are not superhuman. They, too, are mortals. This is why they have to be exceptionally careful in rendering decisions, which cause unintended consequences.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Why
  • Decisions
  • Consequences

• Bad things happen sometimes.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Bad
  • Sometimes
  • Happen

• When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • People
  • God
  • Why

• I like to come into my workspace and feel it's a living environment and not frozen, which is why I often change or add to the pictures on the wall.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Why
  • Change
  • Environment

• My dad was a serious alcoholic, and ultimately, that's why he died. When you're a child of someone who struggled with things like that, you look for the common thread. Is there a pattern? Is there an inheritance of pathology in some way? That haunts me.

  

  K. Flay
  • Serious
  • Died
  • Inheritance

• Why is it there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses?

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Why
  • More
  • Many

• What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Understanding
  • Justice
  • Empathy

• If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Bad
  • Today
  • Person

• Bonnie and Clyde were almost like a modern-day Robin Hood, stealing 'the government's money.' I think that's a bit of why they were glorified.

  

  Lane Garrison
  • Money
  • Why
  • Think

• If someone has been bad to me, I believe in being good to that person. It's my way of getting back. Because that person is going to feel guilty about it.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Believe
  • Bad
  • Person

• You just need to put yourself in someone else's shoes and then see how they feel and then you will understand why they are reacting or why they are behaving the way that they are behaving. We need to be fair.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • Why
  • Yourself
  • Understand

• It's a very strange experience being on set of 'Breaking Bad;' you never know what's coming next for your character. I feel like I don't even know if I'm going to live through the next scene I'm in. It's exciting to work on.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Work
  • Live
  • Character

• The unmarried woman seldom escapes a widowhood of the spirit. There is sure to be some one, parent, brother, sister, friend, more comfortable to her than the day, with whom her life is so entwined that the wrench of parting leaves a torn void never entirely healed or filled.

  

  Charlotte Mary Yonge
  • Life
  • Friend
  • Brother

• Fashion is anything which is you and reflects your personality, and if you are comfortable with what you wearing, you'll look trendy and fashionable for sure.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Fashion
  • Personality
  • Look

• Lying on the ceiling. Refusing to go to school. Not opening up to me. Climbing water towers. "No, she's all right."

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Up
  • School
  • She

• Before being Christians or Jews or Muslims, before being Americans or Russians or Africans, before being generals or priests, rabbis or imams, before having visible or invisible disabilities, we are all human beings with hearts capable of loving,

  

  Jean Vanier

• We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things.

  

  Kathy Acker
  • Why
  • Bad
  • Understanding