Damian Kulash Quotes

I think that artists and musicians can do as much harm as good for causes if they tie their names to lots of things, especially if they aren't really doing much to meaningfully push their causes forward.

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• I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Good
  • Long
  • Value

• It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Pretty
  • Like
  • Seem

• Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Person
  • Mystery
  • Destination

• The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • History
  • Sleep
  • Successful

• I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Enjoy

• The reason Wilde did his best work after turning homosexual is that women simply reinforced his own feminine sentimentality. … Heterosexuality inhibited his imagination because woman is physically and psychologically internal.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Work
  • Women
  • Imagination

• As for memes, the word 'meme' is a cliche, which is to say it's already a meme. We all hear it all the time, and maybe we even have started to use it in ordinary speech. The man who invented it was Richard Dawkins, who was, not coincidentally, an evolutionary biologist. And he invented it as an analog for the gene.

  

  James Gleick
  • Time

• If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff

• Donald Trump's interest in Russia dates back to Soviet times. In fact, there's extraordinary footage of him shaking hands with Mikhail Gorbachev. It comes from 1988, the peak of perestroika and Gorbachev's efforts to charm the American public.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • American
  • Trump

• One of the reasons I didn't really want to do TV earlier in my career was because it is so life-consuming, and I wanted to spend time with my kids and be a mother.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Life
  • Time
  • Kids

• I write and play music. I'd like to be a musician at some point.

  

  Laurence Fox
  • Music

• The first time I landed in New York and got a cab to my hotel, I was completely struck by it: a feeling of life and chaos, 24 hours around the clock, just like in London. And whatever your problem is, it's insignificant. You're just a small part of something very big.

  

  America Ferrera
  • Life
  • Time
  • Feeling

• I didn't know initially whether I'd like doing TV and whether I'd be able to work with other people. I've always done my own thing. I've never put myself into that situation, but it's the most fun I've had in years.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• Science fiction was rocket-mad for about 40 years until aerospace hit a brick wall about 1970. I would not write off space colonisation or exploration completely, but we are profoundly ill adapted for going boldly into outer space.

  

  Charles Stross
  • Science
  • Space
  • Wall

• I've become accustomed to playing the good guy - maybe a rough exterior, but a heart of gold in there somewhere.

  

  Jeffrey Dean Morgan
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Guy

• Other people have hang-ups about what's literary or genre or whatever, and that's sort of not my problem. You're supposed to write what you have to write, and you're supposed to keep moving.

  Colson Whitehead
  • People
  • Moving

• When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Want
  • Waiter
  • Ask Me

• Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man's hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Men
  • Justice
  • Hands

• There's plenty of days when I'm like 'Oh God, why?' But that's just life. It's every job, not just mine. Every moment is not perfect. But it's definitely more good times than bad. You can't even compare. And when I'm on stage it feels incredible.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Earth
  • Artist

• Men are a hundred times worse than you can imagine. We are thinking the worst, shallowest thoughts, all the time.

  

  Neil Strauss
  • Time
  • Men
  • Thinking

• When riding, ask yourself what will my horse get out of it if I get what I want? Many times, human nature is to take and to not give anything back.

  

  Buck Brannaman
  • Horse
  • Human Nature

• I think that artists and musicians can do as much harm as good for causes if they tie their names to lots of things, especially if they aren't really doing much to meaningfully push their causes forward.

  

  Damian Kulash OK Go
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  • Artist
  • Musician