Tony Kushner Quotes

One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.

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• The role of designers and product makers is to really become much better editors. What kind of functionality is actually needed - and truly delightful - to consumers? Remove all the extraneous stuff.

  

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• In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.

  

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• I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.

  

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• I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.

  

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• San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.

  

  Gavin Newsom
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• I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

  

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• To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

  

  Ouida
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• If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
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• The types of melodies I tend to write kind of have this bittersweet quality; they're meant to be uplifting but kind of have this melancholy vibe to it.

  

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• Even though my dad was a manager in the minor leagues, I still traveled around with him and saw it from the field out. Now, as an owner, you're kind of looking from the whole baseball activity from outside in, from a fan's perspective.

  

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• I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.

  

  Iris DeMent
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• As an actor, I'm my own worst critic, but after awhile, really, when you watch 'Moonrise Kingdom', it's such a fantastic film that you sort of get sucked into the story, and then you kind of forget about everything else.

  

  Kara Hayward
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• When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.

  

  Nate Silver
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• I'm kind of a reluctant guru.

  

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• I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.

  

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• It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.

  

  Ed McMahon
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• There's a kind of optimism specifically within Christianity about the world - about whose side God is on. Well, I didn't have any of that in my background. I had physicality and chaos.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
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• I kinda like the duality of California and the dark side, the underbelly of California, and I think that's what this album ['California']feels like - there's endless hope and optimism but there's also a darker side.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
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• My friends and the people I know understand that I'm going to ask them what they're doing, how they're dating, who they're dating, where they're going and what they're doing. I'm constantly asking those questions and making sure I'm in touch with the customer.

  

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• If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• Spend plenty of time with God; let other things go, but don't neglect Him. We are not here to do work for God, we are here to be workers with Him, those through whom He can do His work.

  

  Oswald Chambers
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• One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.

  

  Tony Kushner
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  • Complicated
  • Optimism