Tony Kushner Quotes

I wish you would be more true to your demographic profile. Life is confusing enough.

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• Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Learn

• Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Enemy
  • Careful
  • U.S.

• I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Years
  • Go
  • University

• Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Up
  • Great
  • Women

• I am not in the business of suppressing books.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Business
  • Books
  • Suppressing

• I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.

  

  Halsey
  • Up
  • Done
  • America

• We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Know
  • Person
  • Actions

• Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Music
  • Like
  • Choice

• One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Fly
  • New York
  • Paris

• We can't continue to take from our planet the way we do and not give anything back, and the idea of, 'Oh, but it's fine, I won't have to deal with it in my lifetime,' well, you need to think about the future generations who will have to deal with it.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Think
  • Future
  • Way

• When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Music
  • Business
  • Deep

• I've been training quite hard.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Training
  • Hard
  • Been

• The good parts about being a public company are increased discipline, increased execution and increased transparency to make sure that you are really building a company for a hundred years.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • Good
  • Discipline
  • Building

• There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Money
  • Man
  • More

• The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Good
  • Famous
  • Theatre

• Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'

  

  Lajos Egri
  • People
  • Want
  • Remembered

• I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Know
  • Like
  • Jump

• You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Freedom
  • Democracy
  • Measure

• On 6 October 1973, the Yom Kippur war broke out between a coalition of Arab states and Israel. At 6 A.M. that morning, Kissinger, asleep in the Waldorf, was taken by surprise by the Arab attack - as were the CIA and the rest of the world.

  

  Alistair Horne
  • World
  • War
  • Morning

• The great problem with poisoning by Bitterness was that the passions - hatred, love, despair, enthusiasm, curiosity - also ceased to manifest themselves. After a while, the embittered person felt no desire at all. They lacked the will either to live or to die, that was the problem.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Great
  • Live
  • Die

• M*A*S*H' was a collection of people, in front of and behind the cameras, that really clicked.

  

  Alan Alda
  • People
  • Cameras
  • MASH

• I wish you would be more true to your demographic profile. Life is confusing enough.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Life
  • True
  • Wish