Tony Kushner Quotes

My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can’t despise my whole life.

Tony Kushner

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• Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That's the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Love
  • Beautiful

• The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it.

  

  Larry J. Sabato
  • Life
  • Change
  • Respect

• The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Life
  • Together
  • Peace

• Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Life
  • Picture
  • Painting

• I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • American
  • Myself

• I spent the first five years of my life in Punjab, India, and then moved to New York.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Life
  • My Life
  • New York

• Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, if my family wasn't with me and didn't support me, it would be really tough.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Life
  • Family
  • Career

• We need a NASA-like organization for ocean exploration, because we need to be exploring and protecting our life support systems here on Earth.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Support

• The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Author
  • Living

• Choosing forgiveness opens the door of your heart and makes way for a miracle in your life.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Door

• My wife and I are very blessed. I am very grateful for the life that we lead.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Wife
  • Blessed

• I'm a gay man who came out when I was 10 years old, and there's nothing in my life that I'm prouder of.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Life
  • Man
  • Gay

• In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Life
  • Women
  • Man

• It's hard to strike that balance: to tell a kid that life isn't fair, but also recognize and enforce in them the reality that their choices matter.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Choices

• The biggest things in life are not materials.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Life
  • Things
  • Materials

• There was this girl who went to my school, and she did a Nikki Giovanni poem, 'Ego Tripping,' and it was just different from everyone else's. It wasn't flat recitation. It had an energy and a life to it. And it made me sit up in my seat, and my eyes got wide, and I really felt inside myself, 'She's making me feel things. I want to do that.'

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Life
  • Up
  • Different

• Throughout my entire life, I've always been a captain. I was the captain of my high school team. I was the captain at Oklahoma State University. I was the captain of the 2008 Olympic team.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a performer.

  

  Melanie Fiona Hallim
  • Life
  • Work

• Listen, you have now found the conditions in which the desire of your heart can become the reality of your being. Stay here, until you acquire a force in you that nothing can destroy. Then you'll need to go back into life, and there you will measure yourself constantly with forces which will show you your place.

  

  G. I. Gurdjieff
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Reality

• Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Great
  • Money
  • Why

• I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Life
  • Great
  • Long

• Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many books being printed that magazines - they were new, too - started printing essays about them.

  

  Jill Lepore
  • Time
  • Book

• My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can’t despise my whole life.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Life
  • I Can
  • Whole