Tony Kushner Quotes

Constitutional democracy has created astonishing and apparently irreversible social progress. All we're interested in is talking about when government doesn't work.

Tony Kushner

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• Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Great
  • Evil
  • Military

• I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • America
  • Man

• The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Together
  • Growing
  • Friend

• Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • May
  • Know
  • Same

• In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • Art
  • Experience

• There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Life
  • Myself
  • My Life

• I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • War
  • Want

• I'm not politically correct.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Politically Correct

• To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Good
  • You
  • Interview

• I live with my mum and my nan. I think I will leave eventually, but not at the moment when they look after me so well. If you came to my house, they'd make you eat something.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Live
  • Think
  • House

• There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Like
  • Fish
  • Fresh

• I love dresses, and I've definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Love
  • Perfect

• There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • People
  • Innocent
  • Policy

• I am really happy to see the number of entrepreneurs in India - not only because of the ideas they have but also because of the passion at which their ideas are put across.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Happy
  • Passion
  • Ideas

• I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Spiritual
  • Cancer

• My normal life is like being on holiday.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Life
  • Holiday
  • Normal

• Too often in our communities many families have not even been aware that certain charities exist; and at the same time, there are many who are willing to volunteer their energy and their resources to help these charities, yet they do not know these charities even exist.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Time
  • Help
  • Energy

• The L.A Trilogy is a series of three novels starring Ray, a robot detective, and his boss, a computer called Googol. Set in an alternative version of 1960s Los Angeles, each book will be more or less standalone but together will form an overarching story arc with 'Brisk Money' as the origin story.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • Money
  • Book
  • Together

• Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Fun
  • Lose
  • Losing

• If the amount of hours spent on FarmVille were spent on actual farming, imagine what we could achieve.

  

  Adam Dell
  • Imagine
  • Achieve
  • Farming

• What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, a superfluous, labor of verification.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Long

• I'm lazy. I don't practice enough. I do other stuff. I'm not a musician's musician, and I don't necessarily know if I want to be. When I hear something and want to work on it, then that's what my project will be.

  

  Jason Moran
  • Work
  • Practice
  • Lazy

• Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.

  

  George Gurdjieff
  • Energy
  • Laughter

• Constitutional democracy has created astonishing and apparently irreversible social progress. All we're interested in is talking about when government doesn't work.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Work
  • Government
  • Democracy