Kanan Makiya Quotes
He also knew that there is no escape from power like his, no exit, no way out of the predicament that being always on creates; there is only death.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
-
I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
-
I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
-
I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
-
I've worked with lots of musicians - like Tina Turner - and I love when they go in front of the fitting mirror and do their thing, pose, dance. I love that moment!
-
The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.
-
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
-
Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
-
I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. We had X amount of days to shoot New York in the cold. No trailers. Just sort of kind of doing it guerilla style in a way.
-
If I win the gold medal, I will be set for the rest of my life. The medal itself doesn't give you anything, but it makes you a marketable item. You take it and see what you can do.
-
I can trust in Jesus. And this Gospel that we preach does work. So those who are hurting and suffering today, hang in there. The sun will shine again.
-
I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.
-
I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
-
America is a meritocracy.
-
I've had some threaten not to give Communion to me, even though they don't know my position, just because I'm a Democrat. I've had cardinals refuse to shake my hand because I'm a Democrat.
-
All these actors who died before I was born, all the theaters and the artistic movements - all that stuff fills you up and makes you feel like you're the inheritor of all this information and of all its passion.
-
I was at a party three weeks prior to the murders at Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate's house.
-
Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.
-
When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
-
I like playing sport, and I like doing physical stuff. I like hiking and I like climbing and I like playing sport. I do a lot. But I don't like the term 'exercising.' I feel like with sport, you're playing games. But with exercise, you're literally just trying to stop yourself from dying too young. It's weird.
-
The rational intellect doesn't have a great deal to do with love, and it doesn't have a great deal to do with art. I am often, in my writing, great leaps ahead of where I am in my thinking, and my thinking has to work its way slowly up to what the 'superconscious' has already shown me in a story or poem.
-
When executives lead as teachers, stewards, and designers, they fill roles that are much more subtle and long-term than those of power-wielding hierarchical leaders.
-
It's because it was at a time when women didn't have any power. It was so unusual for a young woman in her 20s to have power that I seized the power but tried not to flaunt it.
-
He also knew that there is no escape from power like his, no exit, no way out of the predicament that being always on creates; there is only death.
