Jonas Mekas Quotes

Most of my videos consist of fragments, one or two minutes long. They are haikus or sketches. I have thousands.

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• There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • American
  • Way
  • Medical

• I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Making
  • Quit

• When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Time
  • Long
  • Day

• The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • People
  • Good
  • Security

• If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Want
  • Golf
  • Aging

• I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Crime
  • Fiction
  • Lewis

• I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.

  

  Karyn Parsons
  • Work
  • You
  • Model

• Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Man
  • Pain
  • Others

• If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Walking
  • Dead
  • Benefit

• Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Mother
  • Choose
  • Abortion

• Survival is not about being fearless. It's about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because I want to see my kids again, or whatever the reason might be.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Kids
  • Decision
  • Survival

• When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Kids
  • Need
  • Expectations

• The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Free
  • Stop
  • Process

• I've always wanted to do a lot of things.

  

  Sam Underwood
  • Always
  • Things
  • Wanted

• The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • High
  • Father
  • Daughter

• Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• Antwerp literally was a trash hole, but fashion changed that. The designers there were extreme, and their work was hard to understand. But now, people from all over the world come to Antwerp to shop.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• I have very eclectic tastes.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Very
  • Tastes
  • Eclectic

• We have a long way to go in the world in all industries. If I'm in the situation where I have equal experience to the other actor and my role is just as significant, there is no reason why I should be paid less. It's not really part of my world anymore, because I just won't accept it.

  

  Jessica Chastain
  • World
  • Long
  • Why

• The right to participate in the choice of representatives for Congress includes, as we have said, the right to cast a ballot and to have it counted at the general election whether for the successful candidate or not.

  

  Harlan Stone
  • Choices
  • Successful
  • Election

• With my boyfriend, we can make sexist jokes to each other because we know it's absolutely not true. If I get home from a long day and he says: 'Go on, get in the kitchen,' it's funny because we know it's not our lives.

  

  Emily Browning
  • Long
  • Home
  • True

• The rise of democracy was driven by the citizens' desire to escape from the paternalistic and arbitrary charity of those with money. They accomplished this by replacing charity with a fair, balanced, arm's-length system of public obligation. The principle tool of that obligation was taxation.

  

  John Ralston Saul
  • Money
  • Desire
  • Democracy

• 'They wouldn't fire me. Even the salesmen liked me. They were robbing the boss out the back door but I didn't say anything. That was their little game. It didn't interest me. I wasn't much of a petty thief. I wanted the whole world or nothing.'

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • World
  • Game
  • Fire

• Most of my videos consist of fragments, one or two minutes long. They are haikus or sketches. I have thousands.

  

  Jonas Mekas
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