Ben Katchor Quotes

The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.

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• Everything is real on me.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Real
  • Me
  • Everything

• The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Honest
  • Deserve
  • Colorado

• Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Trying
  • Become
  • Harm

• I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Life
  • Music
  • Live

• By the age of 18, I was very fat. My dad would say there's a Spall fat gene. But I was fat because I ate loads. I used to go and buy six or seven chocolate bars and eat my way through them.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Age
  • Dad
  • Chocolate

• I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Think
  • Religion
  • Human

• My husband and I are just really laid back people.

  

  A. J. Cook
  • People
  • Husband
  • Back

• I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • People
  • Politics
  • Start

• Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Experience
  • Pain
  • Accounting

• The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Up
  • Time
  • May

• I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Black
  • Poor
  • Created

• The pilgrimage to Mecca, known as the Hajj, is a religious obligation that every orthodox Muslim fulfills, if able, at least once in his or her lifetime.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Religious

• NETWORK - Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.

  

  John Burroughs
  • Nature
  • Popular

• His face was blue, on his fingersFlecks of green. 'This is my father',I thought.

  

  Al Alvarez
  • Father
  • Green
  • Blue

• The Assault Weapons Ban deals with a fictional distinction. You have guns that are exactly the same guns as are banned, in function, that were banned because of the way they look. And you know, that's the whole truth of this policy: it's to make politicians look as if they are doing something, when in point of fact, they are doing nothing.

  

  Alan Keyes
  • Truth

• In a country where the sole employer is the state, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: 'who does not work shall not eat,' has been replaced with a new one: 'who does not obey shall not eat.'

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Work
  • Country
  • Death

• I don't create from a place of me making art for art's sake, but wanting my work to actually do stuff... tangible things.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • Work
  • Art

• I have a big fear of change, or negative change, anyway. I'm basically the same person I was when I won 'Idol,' or when I was 10.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Fear
  • Change
  • Person

• I don’t even see young people on the street anymore. I see youths. You know, how they’re described in police radio reports…. Slumped S-shapes in their hoods, beside their harrowed dogs and a bin full of burning grannies, all texting each other because they’ve given up on speech… plotting something terrible like how to make cider out of blood.

  

  Dylan Moran
  • People
  • Up
  • Police

• The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully.

  

  Rebecca Solnit
  • People
  • Survival
  • Conditions

• I'm still learnin'. I pick up something from every performer I watch.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Up
  • Something
  • Watch

• The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.

  

  Ben Katchor