Tony Kushner Quotes
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.
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I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.
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I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
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Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.
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I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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My mum never told me that I was beautiful when I was a kid – and I didn't read magazines or watch MTV, so I had no real consciousness about it all.
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'Power' is really such a good show that I forget I'm in it sometimes.
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We were offered 100 'Sgt. Pepper' shows in Las Vegas with a huge back-end.
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There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.
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You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character.
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It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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I work best after the deadline has passed, when I'm in a panic.
