Michael Patrick King Quotes

People wince when something is in bad taste. They laugh when it's funny. If it's too dirty or wrong, they won't laugh. But if it's a big, dirty, smart, funny laugh, they love it.

Michael Patrick King

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• You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Time
  • You
  • Routine

• Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Man
  • Marriage
  • Woman

• All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • World
  • Education
  • Best

• This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Mind
  • Identity
  • Speech

• A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.

  

  Gary Becker
  • Chinese
  • Stronger
  • Lead

• I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Reading

• I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Learning
  • Road
  • English

• Proust is a huge author for me.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Me
  • Author
  • Huge

• I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Like
  • Secret
  • Wrong

• I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Training
  • Jew

• Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Time
  • Why
  • Enjoy

• Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is self-defeating.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Age
  • Colonial

• Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Nature
  • Religion
  • Islam

• Look at someone like Steve Jobs. His look wasn't very special - black turtleneck and jeans - but he had style. He looked the same, and you knew it was him when you saw him. Plus, he was a very smart person, which is also very attractive. His style was simple, not distracting, and very strong.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Black
  • Strong
  • Simple

• One does not allow the plumbers to decide the temperature, depth and timing of a bath.

  

  Jack Gould
  • Depth
  • Timing
  • Bath

• My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the 1920s, when he was in his teens, he heard a great violinist, Jascha Heifetz, and he was so inspired listening to him that he bought himself a violin, and with a little help from an Italian teacher, he learned to play it.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Great
  • Help
  • Father

• Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Culture
  • Popular
  • Fiction

• I live every day to its fullest extent and I don't sweat the small stuff.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Live
  • Small
  • Day

• In the comic-book lore, of course, you mutate post a traumatic event. You must have the mutant gene, but if something traumatic happens to you, usually at puberty, then that mutation manifests itself.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Book
  • You
  • Something

• A tedium that includes only the anticipation of more tedium; the regret, now, of tomorrow regretting having regretted today.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Today
  • Regret

• I know a lot of people who enjoy rap music who aren't black. You can't just say it's black music. To segregate films the way Hollywood likes to segregate films, ultimately everyone loses.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • People
  • Music
  • Black

• Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Money
  • Power
  • Giving

• Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

  

  Khalil Gibran

• People wince when something is in bad taste. They laugh when it's funny. If it's too dirty or wrong, they won't laugh. But if it's a big, dirty, smart, funny laugh, they love it.

  

  Michael Patrick King
  • People
  • Smart
  • Laughing