Tony Kushner Quotes

There are no gods here, no ghosts and spirits in America, there are no angels in America, no spiritual past, no racial past, there's only the political, and the decoys and the ploys to maneuver around the inescapable battle of politics.

Tony Kushner

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• During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.

  

  Kate Smith
  • God
  • America
  • Presidential

• In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • America
  • Health
  • Care

• One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Past
  • Should

• Many past products advertised in old publications can be profitably promoted all over again. Sometimes, just by giving them a new twist or modern application, you'll hit a real winner.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Real
  • Past
  • Giving

• The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Important
  • American
  • America

• There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Up
  • World
  • Men

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• The Russo brothers are the best people ever, and they cast me in 'Happy Endings.' I did text Joe Russo to say, 'I don't think my character dies, so if you need a local news cameraman to show up in 'Captain America 2'... I know it doesn't make sense, but just hear me out on this!' He was really cool about it and turned me down right away.

  

  Adam Pally
  • People
  • Up
  • Character

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

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • America
  • Science
  • Kind

• I don't like parties past 2 am. Then it's all losers and weirdos.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Past
  • Like
  • Losers

• The spiritual always did exist, always will. It is eternal, it is changeless.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Always
  • Spiritual
  • Eternal

• What I tend to get from America is very enthusiastic letters and e-mail from librarians and schoolteachers, the gatekeepers, though I hesitate to use that word. I've never been a huge seller.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • America
  • Never
  • Enthusiastic

• While liberals are leery of religious fundamentalism in general, they consistently imagine that all religions at their core teach the same thing and teach it equally well. This is one of the many delusions borne of political correctness.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Political
  • Religious
  • Same

• The modern museum has multiple purposes - to curate and preserve, to research, and to reach out to the public. They challenge us and ask us to question our assumptions about the past or the world around us.

  

  Kate Williams
  • World
  • Past
  • Question

• America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • America
  • Pot
  • Melting Pot

• The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • America
  • Political
  • Stop

• Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • America
  • Democracy

• I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to look at my old pictures and to discuss them.

  

  Otto Preminger
  • Past
  • Single
  • Look

• You could tell that America was gearing up for war.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Up
  • America
  • War

• I actually find in America, there's a slight snobbery about actors who go back and forth between big heavy dramas and popcorn fare. That always intrigues me, because that doesn't exist in the same way in Britain. And I imagine it would be worse. In terms of the sort of class, and the sort of snobby, slightly on the back-foot thing Britain has. But it's much more prevalent in America. I'm really intrigued by it. I don't know why that is. But I'm aiming to break down those barriers by being in a Shakespeare film and a Smurfs film within six months of each other.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • Why
  • America
  • Actor

• Whatever success I've achieved has come from pretty much doing the opposite of what I've been told or expected to do.

  

  Hal Riney
  • Success

• I'm sad and blue, about nobody but you. I told you that I loved you right from the start, you told me the same and now you try to break my little heart.

  

  Leon Redbone
  • Heart
  • Sad
  • Blue

• Young Thug, he gave me all the jewels. He literally paid me to leave the neighborhood.

  

  Lil Baby
  • Young
  • Neighborhood
  • Jewels

• There are no gods here, no ghosts and spirits in America, there are no angels in America, no spiritual past, no racial past, there's only the political, and the decoys and the ploys to maneuver around the inescapable battle of politics.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • America
  • Political
  • Past