Karen Tei Yamashita Quotes

No single imagination is wild or crass or cheesy enough to compete with the collective mindlessness that propels our fascination forward.

Karen Tei Yamashita

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• I know a lot about Judy Garland. She was born in 1922, and I think she died in '69. When I was little, like, when I was 8, I knew all of her husbands' names.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Know
  • Born
  • Died

• It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • World
  • Free
  • Talk

• My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Impossible

• I like that Barack got that job.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Job
  • Like
  • Got

• If I'm extremely bored and I don't have a book with me and I'm being an obnoxious teenager, I'll read 'BuzzFeed' on my phone. But even that just leaves me feeling icky because I think for some reason my comfort zone is to just not really be in the loop about stuff like awards shows or things like that.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Book
  • Feeling
  • Me

• 'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters - to trust characters and hate other characters - but it doesn't tell you who is good or bad or right or wrong. That's the most exciting storytelling, in my book.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• I love flexing theater muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.

  

  Eddie Cahill
  • Live
  • Theater
  • Merits

• We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Live
  • Free

• Not only do I not drive, I don't have my driver's license; there's a story there, but the upshot is that I spent my high school years an ardent environmentalist and workout junkie who wanted to save the environment, burn calories, and have my boyfriends drive me around.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • School
  • High
  • Me

• When money was plentiful, I was the first one who told you to stack it. Live your life with it. Now that money slowed up, I'ma be the one telling you to save it like they ain't gon' make it no more.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Pride
  • Humility
  • Mask

• Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true. The smarter you are, the better prepared you are to make decisions in your life, the more likely you are to lead a satisfying life and be glamorous and fun and anything you want to be.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Life
  • True
  • Fun

• An increase in the debt ceiling should be accompanied by fundamental policy reforms, substantial budget savings, and a strong enforcement mechanism to tie the hands of any future Congress.

  

  Jerome Powell
  • Future
  • Strong

• Imagine somebody says you are going to die in a few weeks; I'd really rather not know.

  

  Amaury Nolasco
  • Die

• My salvation lies in time spent alone with an X-Acto knife and commercial-grade adhesive.

  

  David Rakoff
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Lies

• So many shows out there dumb-down the country. It's so admirable to be part of a show that wants people to think.

  

  David Krumholtz
  • People
  • Country
  • Dumb

• Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!

  

  May Sarton
  • Baby

• Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination.

  

  Jack Williamson
  • Life
  • Imagination
  • Empty

• The source of genius is imagination alone.

  

  Eugene Delacroix
  • Imagination
  • Genius
  • Source

• People are more used to seeing men who are masters at an instrument than women. When people say, 'Oh, she plays like a dude,' it's usually dudes who are the ones saying it. They're saying, 'Oh, she's as good as us.' Of course, that's a stupid statement. It's totally stereotypical to say, 'We have an advantage on this, and if anyone else can do it well, it's only because they're like us.' I think more men are starting to learn that this attitude is totally hollow and based in imagination. As more women are involved in music, this kind of thing gets said less and less.

  

  Esperanza Spalding
  • Music
  • Imagination
  • Attitude

• We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.

  

  Lilly Wachowski
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• No single imagination is wild or crass or cheesy enough to compete with the collective mindlessness that propels our fascination forward.

  

  Karen Tei Yamashita
  • Imagination
  • Cheesy
  • Fascination