Sayed Kashua Quotes

I tell you a joke to have you listen to me, and then maybe I will tell you another joke that we can laugh together and feel equal. And then I will tell you a story hopefully that will make you cry. So I think that's the way that I approach the columns, as a surviving tool in a way.

Sayed Kashua

• Thinking
• Together
• Laughing
• Cry
• Equal

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• The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.

  

  Tammin Sursok
  • Music
  • Live
  • Listening

• I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • You
  • Support
  • Tax

• Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Like
  • Rome
  • Industrial

• Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.

  

  Ian Hart
  • You
  • Like
  • Well

• It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Know
  • Best
  • Answer

• I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Want
  • Liked
  • Respected

• Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • Earth
  • Hate

• I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • People
  • World
  • Value

• I love to perform live.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Live
  • I Love
  • Perform

• The most important thing that I've figured out is that things work out the way they're supposed to. We try to have all this control and fashion things the way we want, but everything happens for a reason, and in the end it works out the way it's supposed to.

  

  Randy Couture
  • Work
  • Important
  • Control

• It's all matchups, and I knew that I matched up well against 'Rumble' Johnson.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Up
  • Well
  • Against

• I am open to them. If I come across something interesting, and I think it suits me, I may do a horror movie.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Horror

• Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • God
  • Faith
  • Support

• I'm actually pretty shy in real life. But I guess in front of the camera, I focus.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Life
  • Real
  • Pretty

• Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • World
  • Theater
  • Musical

• My dad always associated information with liberation. He was very much in that Malcolm X tradition.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Dad
  • Information
  • Very

• 'It's gonna be just like war!' an editor exults. 'That's it! War! You put that in the lead.

  

  Ben Hecht
  • War

• The tolls for the maintenance of a high road, cannot with any safety be made the property of private persons.

  

  Adam Smith
  • High
  • Road
  • Safety

• The biggest profit center for investment banks is the hefty fees they charge for underwriting stock offerings and giving financial advice, and analysts put those profits at risk if they publish negative conclusions about the companies that pay the fees.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Giving
  • Risk
  • Advice

• I think if you look back at all those great comedies on television in the past, it's all lovable losers that gathered together - 'Taxi' and 'Cheers,' 'Seinfeld' and 'Friends.'

  

  Matthew Perry
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Together

• I am interested in evolution within my thinking. I am not interested in the evolution of my paint.

  

  Kehinde Wiley
  • Thinking

• There are fewer and fewer roles that I haven't done already, or archetypes that I haven't played, and to break out of that box, the most interesting stuff is television.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Done
  • Interesting
  • Television

• Each high point in the history of human civilisation has taken place where the conditions were ripe and has borrowed and built on the achievements of other cultures whose golden age may have passed.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • May
  • History
  • High

• I tell you a joke to have you listen to me, and then maybe I will tell you another joke that we can laugh together and feel equal. And then I will tell you a story hopefully that will make you cry. So I think that's the way that I approach the columns, as a surviving tool in a way.

  

  Sayed Kashua
  • Thinking
  • Together
  • Laughing