Kate Orff Quotes

My dream is remaking and reforming a more sustainable, more livable, delicious future.

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• I want to act, if I can, as a bridge for people who read 'Shock Doctrine' or 'No Logo'. People who are sitting out for whatever reasons.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Want
  • Bridge

• For my own part, I have been wont to converse with poverty; and however disagreeable a companion she may be thought to be by the affluent and luxurious, who were never acquainted with her, I can live happily with her the remainder of my life if I can thereby contribute to the redemption of my country.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Life
  • Live
  • Country

• I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Work
  • Think
  • Best

• I don't really see myself as an actor.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Myself
  • Actor
  • See

• You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Want
  • Hurt
  • Doing

• Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • World
  • Rise
  • Mental Illness

• Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it's more casual but more interesting.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Art
  • Future
  • Interesting

• When I started stand-up, the first thing I did was to take an improv class.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Up
  • First
  • Class

• I learned long ago that the most effective way to compete is to play your own game, and I've been competing with men my whole life.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Life
  • Men
  • Long

• It's very hard to get to the top. It's hardest to stay at the top.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Hard
  • Top
  • Stay

• When I leaf through Fackel issues of my slave years, I am seized by horror. Anyone released from bondage must feel like this.

  

  Elias Canetti

• There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

  

  Marie Curie
  • Truth

• 'It became like a symbolic thing, to be 'an artist.' After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.'

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Attitude

• Every great work of art ... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.

  

  Azar Nafisi
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• Being a songwriter, my job is just to write songs for people. I'm not attached to them.

  

  Jason Boyd
  • People
  • Job

• I have that precious commodity - freedom. I can live my life a day at a time, and I am open to whatever the next day brings. I know I sound as if I have been off with some guru in India, but I haven't. I've come to realise the value of being able to decide for oneself.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• Every song on '10 Day' is a completely different sound - the cadence, the flow, even the production - because I like so many different types of music and because my taste is so refined. 'Acid Rap' is another tape where every song sounds different.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • Music
  • Different
  • Song

• I'd love to work with the people who really got the film industry going again through the '70s: Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, Fred Schepisi.

  

  David Wenham
  • People
  • Work

• And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence.

  

  Friedrich Schleiermacher
  • Art

• The truth is there are a million steps, and we don't even know what the steps are, and worse, at any given moment we may not be willing or even able to take them; and still worse, they are different for you and they are always changing. I have come to believe the sooner we will fall in love with the God who keeps shaking things up, keeps changing the path, keeps rocking the boat to test our faith in Him, teaching us to not rely on easy answers, bullet points, magic mantras, or genies in lamps, but rather in His guidance, His existence, His mercy, and His love.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Up
  • God
  • Believe

• New Mexico is my home. It has never been anything but home. The ranch has rivers and canyon, everything imaginable. I can ride, hunt and fish. At the same time, ranching is grueling, difficult work. It`s like acting, to be successful at it, you have to work hard. I take it very seriously.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Time
  • Work
  • Home

• I think of you, I dream of you, I conjure you up when I need you most. This is all I can do, but to me it isn't enough. It will never be enough, this I know; yet what else is there for me to do? If you were here, you would tell me, but I have been cheated of even that. You always knew the proper words to ease the pain I felt. You always knew how to make me feel good inside.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Dream
  • Pain
  • Enough

• My dream is remaking and reforming a more sustainable, more livable, delicious future.

  

  Kate Orff
  • Dream
  • Delicious