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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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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.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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I go light on breakfast. Sometimes it's a yogurt, but a lot of times it's leftovers from one of my wife's dinners.
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I like that Barack got that job.
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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.
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'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.
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I love flexing theater muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.
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When kids my age were picking up toy cars, I used to buy toy guns.
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We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.
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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.
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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.
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One thing a lyricist must learn is not to fall in love with his own lines. Once you learn that, you can walk away from the lyric and look at it with a reasonable degree of objectivity.
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Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
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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.
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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.
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Imagine somebody says you are going to die in a few weeks; I'd really rather not know.
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My salvation lies in time spent alone with an X-Acto knife and commercial-grade adhesive.
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But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.
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Mostly, we argued about who which of us was better at arguing, and particularly about who had won the previous argument.
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America is a mistake, admittedly a gigantic mistake, but a mistake nevertheless.
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I was lucky because my mum was a teacher and showed me how to read and write. But most importantly, she encouraged me to use my imagination.
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No single imagination is wild or crass or cheesy enough to compete with the collective mindlessness that propels our fascination forward.
