Larry Kramer Quotes
AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.
Quotes to Explore
-
The biggest challenge we all face is to learn about ourselves and to understand our strengths and weaknesses. We need to utilize our strengths, but not so much that we don't work on our weaknesses.
-
Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
-
I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
-
Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
-
You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from.
-
I watched 'Rocky' and 'Raging Bull' and 'Taxi Driver' over and over again. They spoke to you, man.
-
Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
-
I just consider myself an artist. I don't really rap. I don't really sing. I just do what I feel is good, and people like it.
-
Many women do not want to venture out into the 'opinion world' until they are certain of themselves, the facts, and that they are right. They are afraid of being shot down. The result is often silence.
-
Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term to describe portfolios that have been assembled for purposes other than serving the clients' best interests.
-
I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.
-
When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
-
The military executes policy decisions.
-
Let's just say, if I weren't a model, I'd be a walking collage. I see my body as a blank canvas that's aching to be decorated; I find it all very fascinating.
-
Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people.
-
Instead of locking people up and throwing away the key, it's important to invest in them and show them another way - show them what they can do, instead of telling them what they can't do. Because by investing in youth, we're investing into the future of this great nation of the United States of America.
-
Kids have been let down by adults - we've tried to give them too much, we've tried not to impose discipline. We've tried to make their lives easier and, in doing so, we've taken something away from them. Kids like boundaries, they also like to be pushed, need to learn what failure is all about, need guidance.
-
My song-writing has always been just about my life - usually my worst moments.
-
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
-
I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.
-
I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.
-
If I deny myself something, I just get resentful, so what's the point?
-
I don't know what art is, but I do know what it isn't. And it isn't someone walking around with a salmon over his shoulder or embroidering the name of everyone they have slept with on the inside of a tent.
-
AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.
