Tony Kushner Quotes
Gay TV has been immensely important in transforming American culture in a more gay-positive direction.
Tony Kushner
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Ultimately, the reason we have a Constitution, the reason we have separation of powers, the reason we have the Fourteenth Amendment is to provide the courts with the opportunity to override the will of the people when the will of the people discriminates against a segment of our society.
Ted Olson
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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
Mahatma Gandhi
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'Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.
Dale Archer
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I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
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The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
J. D. Hayworth
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How do Ferrari know what I'm doing next year when I don't know what I'm doing next week?
Valentino Rossi
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
Walter Kaufmann
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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
Walter Kirn
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With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.
Oscar Isaac
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I was always a little adult. Even as a little kid, I just couldn't understand why I was surrounded by all these kids. I took things very seriously.
Laura Benanti
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Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
Daniel Defoe
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I don't know a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines - the ones that they believe that they believe; and the ones that they actually try to live by.
Orson Scott Card
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If you were to ask me when I was 17 if I was mad because I didn't have a deal, I would have probably said, 'Yeah.' Now I'm so glad I got it when I got it. People tell you to be patient and wait. Patience is not a virtue of mine, but I think everything definitely happened the right way for me.
Chris Young
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As a writer, that moment every few years when I buy a new laptop and find out that all the word processing stuff has slightly changed again (stuff I spend every working day using) is like getting into bed at night and finding some mad robot where you expected your wife to be.
John Niven
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'Conservative talk radio hosts have conned the American people into thinking there is such a thing as a pro-life, pro-war, pro-gun, pro-death penalty Christian.'
Janeane Garofalo
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I'd worked at the White House for two years, and I'd read a bunch of White House memoirs because everybody who works at the White House, even for five minutes, writes a memoir usually not less than 600 pages long - and never without the word 'power' in the title.
Christopher Buckley
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Gay TV has been immensely important in transforming American culture in a more gay-positive direction.
Tony Kushner
