Kamal Haasan Quotes

Here are his earlier letters to me, that I've framed. I call them ‘my degrees’.

Kamal Haasan

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• The comics I made from 1990 to 1997 were largely based in vaguely urban, vaguely dystopic settings because that was my reference point for comics storytelling in general.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Point
  • Storytelling
  • Urban

• It usually takes me 20 to 90 minutes to write a song because once I start, I don't stop. If I start writing a song, and you try to have a conversation with me, you're a bad person.

  

  Halsey
  • Writing
  • Bad
  • Song

• You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • People
  • Different
  • Writing

• Prior to getting into music, I interacted with, on a daily basis, about 5-10 percent of the people that I've interacted with since then. I've been meeting people from different backgrounds and different cultures. That did allow for a lot of change. I've changed as a product of that, but it's been positive.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• All of my walls are covered with framed pictures of my friends.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Friends
  • Pictures
  • Framed

• I thank my personal staff for their restless sacrifice for my work.

  

  Oskar Schindler
  • Work
  • Sacrifice
  • Personal

• I'm not on social media; I don't watch TV. I'm really out of it.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Media
  • Watch
  • Social Media

• I don't believe that if I came out as bisexual the world will change. But it's really important for people to be truthful about who they are and fight for equality. We need to help the world usher itself into the next phase.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination take place. It's enough just to be without hypocrisy, dogmatism, arrogance - embracing all opposites.

  

  Taisen Deshimaru
  • Imagination
  • Effort

• If every economic issue is framed as a struggle between a hardworking white middle class and an undeserving minority, then workers of all shades are going to be left fighting for scraps while the wealthy withdraw further into their private enclaves.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Fighting
  • Struggle
  • Framed

• You cannot easily fit women into a structure that is already coded as male; you have to change the structure.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Women

• For me, like somebody with finer hair, the key thing is not cutting too many bangs and really just framing my face versus doing a real fringe.

  

  Carlson Young
  • Real
  • Hair
  • Cutting

• It's not that I don't want to be famous. It's just that I don't feel like the burden of responsibility on selling a film should be on the actors.

  

  Billy Crudup
  • Responsibility
  • Famous

• For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it.

  

  Martin Van Buren
  • Country
  • High
  • Desire

• When I do a project, I like the idea that someone is going to experience the book, someone is going to experience the film, someone else is going to experience a framed photo on a wall, but they are all going to get to the same root thing as long as all of those mediums are exploring it from the same place.

  

  Andrew Zuckerman
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Book

• Make in India will not work if we take a conventional linear approach. It has to be a leapfrogging into the future, and India is ideally placed to do this.

  

  Anand Mahindra
  • Work
  • Future

• I am generally a nostalgic person and super into the pop culture that I grew up on - I've got a framed ALF poster above my bed and a Mickey Mouse poster, and I've got this big VHS collection.

  

  Kyle Mooney
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Framed

• If you look back through history, you'll see that God, in any form - Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed - has always wanted prosperity for everyone. There was a recognition of the need to integrate our material and spiritual lives. But that message was distorted by various leaders with their own agendas.

  

  Paul Zane Pilzer
  • God
  • History
  • Jesus

• Unless there is an obvious reason to do otherwise, most of use passively accept decision problems as they are framed and therefore rarely have an opportunity to discover the extent to which our preferences are frame-bound rather than reality-bound.

  

  Daniel Kahneman
  • Reality
  • Opportunity
  • Decision

• We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • World
  • Men
  • Live

• I am not yet born; O hear me.Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or the clubfooted ghoul come near me.

  

  Louis MacNeice

• Quem di diligent, adolescens moritur, dum valet, sentit, sapit.

  

  Plautus

• That's the great thing about today, having smartphones to stay in touch and share experiences. Knowing that whilst there may be thousands of miles between you, it's almost like they're there. That's the coolest thing, and that's how I stay in touch with the people that are important to me.

  

  Lewis Hamilton
  • People
  • Great
  • Important

• Here are his earlier letters to me, that I've framed. I call them ‘my degrees’.

  

  Kamal Haasan
  • Framed