Tony Kushner Quotes
You have a good heart and you think the good thing is to be guilty and kind but it's not always kind to be gentle and soft, there's a genuine violence softness and kindness visit on people. Sometimes self-interested is the most generous thing you can be.
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I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
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I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
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Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.
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The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.
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I'm not very good with stills. I get all twitchy.
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I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.
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I'm totally clean and sober my whole life.
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In the West, we've lost our intuitive understanding of how poverty shapes thinking.
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In an era of too much information, the need for discernment and wisdom will be greater than ever.
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You have a good heart and you think the good thing is to be guilty and kind but it's not always kind to be gentle and soft, there's a genuine violence softness and kindness visit on people. Sometimes self-interested is the most generous thing you can be.
