Joseph Cummins Quotes

I think that people have short memories, and I think that they believe that our forbearers in the past were these Founding Fathers who were ideal and who were - would never have stooped to dirty tricks.

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• To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Fun
  • Gay
  • Pride

• May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • World
  • May
  • Peace

• Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Up
  • Family
  • Money

• The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Men
  • Live
  • Truth

• Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • May
  • Create
  • Treat

• Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.

  

  Karen Bender
  • World
  • Writing
  • Enjoy

• I think it's really important whilst you're a young actor to try as many new things as possible... to try and do something you haven't necessarily been seen doing before.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Important
  • Think
  • New Things

• The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Life
  • Law
  • City

• People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Soul
  • Dream

• While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

  

  Quintilian
  • Truth
  • Sometimes
  • Find

• Teaching was my first job after leaving university. It was a challenge, but I enjoyed it. Some of the kids were disruptive, but I could deal with it because I was only 24 at the time, and my own school memories were still fresh.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Time
  • School
  • Job

• It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Growing

• I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.

  

  Damon Runyon
  • Life
  • Long
  • Conclusion

• Usually when a song comes to me, I don't ask a lot of questions; I hear something, and I just let it out in song. It's like making a salad. Everything I hear, and everything I am, I mix together in a different way in each song.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Song
  • Way
  • Questions

• People talk about the miracle of birth. No. There's the miracle of conception. I did IVF, but nothing happened. So I began to think of adoption, and then I got pregnant. It was definitely a miracle.

  

  Iman
  • People
  • Think
  • Miracle

• A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Time
  • May

• 55: LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.

  

  Alan Perlis
  • Value

• I used to think that the British press were particularly awful to Cherie Blair. I think Blair's foreign policy was a complete disaster, but the British press, when they wanted to explain why Blair took unexpected moves, they did create Cherie as the power behind the throne.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Why
  • Power

• I'd rather dig a ditch than go to a dinner party with people I don't know.

  

  Marian Keyes
  • People
  • Party

• The truth is there are a million steps, and we don't even know what the steps are, and worse, at any given moment we may not be willing or even able to take them; and still worse, they are different for you and they are always changing. I have come to believe the sooner we will fall in love with the God who keeps shaking things up, keeps changing the path, keeps rocking the boat to test our faith in Him, teaching us to not rely on easy answers, bullet points, magic mantras, or genies in lamps, but rather in His guidance, His existence, His mercy, and His love.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Up
  • God
  • Believe

• Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Men
  • Free

• I had a probing mind and an elephant memory.

  

  Ethel Waters
  • Mind
  • Memories
  • Elephants

• I think that people have short memories, and I think that they believe that our forbearers in the past were these Founding Fathers who were ideal and who were - would never have stooped to dirty tricks.

  

  Joseph Cummins
  • Past
  • Memories
  • Tricks