Keith Johnstone Quotes

The best laughs are on the recognition of truth.

Keith Johnstone

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• Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not exercising it. Why? Because they haven't got the interest or the time, or they have just given up hope.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Women

• I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Cool

• Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Better
  • Situation
  • Strive

• There's no sex in Middle Earth.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Earth
  • Sex
  • Middle

• If there's a cat, I obliterate it by putting polka dot stickers on it. I obliterate a horse by putting polka dot stickers on it. And I obliterated myself by putting the same polka dot stickers on myself.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Myself
  • Same
  • Horse

• When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Failure
  • Advice

• The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • World
  • Responsibility

• I grow old on my bitterness.

  

  Anne Sexton

• Pythagoras said that medicine is the most godlike of arts. But if the most godlike, it should tend to the soul as well as the body, or else a living thing must be unhealthy, being diseased in its higher part.

  

  Apollonius of Tyana
  • Soul

• An ethic to supplement and guide the economic relation to land presupposes the existence of some mental image of land as a biotic mechanism.

  

  Aldo Leopold

• Che non pur per cittadi e per castella,Ma per tuguri ancora e per feniliSpesso si trovan gli uomini gentili.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That's definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

  

  Brené Brown
  • Struggle

• Coming to a team like the Spurs, you're automatically going to learn how to play the game the right way.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Game
  • Team

• Kinkade's paintings are worthless schmaltz, and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However, I'd love to see a museum mount a small show of Kinkade's work. I would like the art world and the wider world to argue about him in public, out in the open.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • World
  • Work
  • Art

• An actor has to act irrespective of the camera or location.

  

  Barun Sobti

• For me, I think being a conservative means you are focused on all four key principles: strong defense, lower taxes, less spending, and defending traditional American values.

  

  Jim Jordan
  • American
  • Strong

• I'll fully admit that when I went to the movie theater and saw 'Titanic,' I cried afterwards.

  

  Paul Wesley
  • Movie
  • Titanic

• Jellyfish serve as a model for bioengineers for the same reason yeast were once so valuable to geneticists: they're simple to deconstruct.

  

  Jeffrey Kluger
  • Simple
  • Model

• You've just got to keep grinding, putting good ABs together; just stop trying to look at the record, your batting average. You've got to go out there and just keep playing.

  

  Freddie Freeman
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Together

• In every advanced mammalian species that survives and thrives, a common anthropological characteristic is the fierce behavior of the adult female of the species when she senses a threat to her cubs. The lioness, the tigress and the mama bear are all examples.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Behavior
  • Fierce
  • Species

• It's self-evident that we are going to have permanent problems with oil and gasoline and the prime resources that are needed to run the American suburbs. And we're just not going to be able to run them. You know, it's just unfortunate, it's tragic, but it's the truth.

  

  James Howard Kunstler
  • Truth
  • American

• Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Character
  • Looking Forward

• I certainly was never the pretty girl at school, but I can go to a lot of different places with this face.

  

  Mary-Louise Parker
  • Different
  • School
  • Pretty

• The best laughs are on the recognition of truth.

  

  Keith Johnstone
  • Truth
  • Recognition
  • Laughs