Tony Kushner Quotes

The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs.

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• People are mean on social media, whoever you are. It's a shame people have to be that way.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Media
  • Social Media

• Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • World
  • Taken
  • Humanity

• What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • Real
  • House

• I always joke with people that having nephews is the best birth control there is.

  

  Tahj Mowry
  • People
  • Control
  • Best

• London is the financial capital of Europe, a great platform to America and Asia. I love the fact that in British culture you can be whoever you want, and people don't even look at you. I don't feel that in Paris or Milan.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • People
  • Great
  • Love

• When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.' But, you know, most people don't speak out because they are frightened.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Power
  • Friends

• Coming in and out of Hollywood for pilot season, I may have to thicken my accent or hear that, physically, I'm not Latino. I not only am, but there's another 50,000 people who look exactly like me.

  

  Carlos Ponce
  • People
  • Hollywood
  • Season

• What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • People
  • Time
  • Lost

• You learn so much about yourself as an artist. I never would have thought that I could sing every night, you know? Travel and perform every single night, and travel to another city the next day and do it all over again? You learn a lot of new things about yourself, and you make a lot of connections with people.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Night
  • City

• My therapy has come from paying attention to my life.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Attention
  • My Life

• Life's too short not to have fun with what you wear.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Short

• People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Design
  • Company

• I really like playing good guys, of course. Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes make us who we are, by how we respond to them. I just don't want to play boring good guys, but I don't have that problem, anyway.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • People
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• People in America and Hollywood are very good at pronouncing my name, to begin with. Socially, they're very adept at listening to somebody's name and repeating it, cleverly in the first couple of sentences so the name sticks to begin with.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • People
  • Good
  • America

• Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.

  

  Oliver St. John
  • People
  • Politics
  • Irish

• I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • People
  • Believe
  • Think

• I love life. I wish I could live another 500 years, truly. There is so much to do. I don't feel bitter or angry or disappointed. If anything, I am very grateful for where I come from. I have absolutely no regrets.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Life
  • Live
  • Love

• Sometimes, when you watch people play a video game, they seem lost in this wormhole, or in a trance.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Game
  • Lost

• The black community is my community - the LGBT community, too, and the female community. That is my community. That's me; it's who I am.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Community
  • Female
  • LGBT

• I like to think that as I get older I'm getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with.

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Time
  • Spending Time

• Without public pressure from caring people, our lawsuits will not be enough to stop this widespread abuse.

  

  Morris Dees
  • People
  • Enough
  • Pressure

• My pen is alight and my body aflame. Until both burn down to ash, my love and my hate will remain here in the world.

  

  Ba Jin
  • World
  • Hate
  • Ashes

• The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs.

  

  Tony Kushner
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