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

• 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

• If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Good
  • Change

• Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

  

  Nadia Boulanger
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Attention

• 'Lean on Pete' is the story of a boy and his horse, but it is never heart-warming - it ranges in tone from desperate to merely painful - and, while fascinating, it is never entertaining or redemptive. But if you want an unadorned portrait of American life (at least in some places) at the beginning of the 21st century, this is the book for you.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Book

• If there's anything in life that we should be passionate about, it's the gospel. And I don't mean passionate only about sharing it with others. I mean passionate about thinking about it, dwelling on it, rejoicing in it, allowing it to color the way we look at the world. Only one thing can be of first importance to each of us. And only the gospel ought to be.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • Life
  • World
  • Thinking

• There aren't many things that are universally cool, and it's cool not to litter. I'd never do it.

  

  Matthew McConaughey
  • Cool

• When we function from a fearful, low-level energetic state, our thoughts and energy can literally pollute the world.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein
  • World
  • Energy
  • Thoughts

• 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