Kevin Young Quotes
I'm not a historian. I know historians. I've worked with them. They have a really powerful way of looking at the world, and I think so do poets.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
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My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
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I am a just man.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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I still have a young attitude.
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There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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When I'm being funny, I try not to offend. I don't think much of what I've done has been in really ghastly taste. I don't think I have embarrassed many people or distressed them.
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The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though the world might last a hundred years.
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I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial. It will not fail through its inherent weakness. It may fail because of poverty of response. Then will be one time for real danger. The high-souled men, who are unable to suffer national humiliation any longer, will want to vent their wrath. They will take to violence.
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I'm not a historian. I know historians. I've worked with them. They have a really powerful way of looking at the world, and I think so do poets.
