Kevin Young Quotes

When I was ten and in fifth grade, I read all of 'Robinson Crusoe' in one weekend.

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• I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
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• We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.

  

  Lacey Chabert
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• Matte digital prints are gorgeous, don't you agree? But the glossy digital prints, I just can't stand that paper.

  

  Sally Mann
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• Television is democracy at its ugliest.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
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• Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

  

  Carl Sandburg
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• They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.

  

  Kate Millett
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• You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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• I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good.

  

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• I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.

  

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• The story of Warner Brothers' movie, 'Mildred Pierce,' recounts the enormous and unrewarded sacrifices that a mother (Joan Crawford) makes for her spoiled, greedy daughter (Ann Blythe).

  

  Manny Farber
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• Seeing your baby in pain and seeing them crying and that sort of thing, and you're tired, and you can do nothing about it - that's, like, one of the most demoralizing things I can think of.

  

  Daniel Bryan
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  • Tired

• I found I loved musicals as much or more than the pure dance world. I also think I became tired of dancing for other dancers.

  

  Patricia Birch
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• Cleaning, like seduction, should be done from the top down - starting with the ceiling, which is ridiculous. Gravity takes care of that.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Done
  • Cleaning
  • Seduction

• People ask about dictators, 'Why?' But dictators themselves ask, 'Why not?'

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
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• Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.

  

  Bill Hicks
  • Revolution

• I think there was a time when I was too strict and controlling. I think I asphyxiated my children.

  

  Donatella Versace
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• I would like to think that in America, as time goes on, you gain freedom, not lose freedom.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
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• Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

  

  Charles R. Swindoll
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• Feb 6 1945 St. Ann, Jamaica, Daddy was born. I remember us celebrating one of his birthdays in Jamaica at 56 Hope Road with him, no big superstar party, just us kids, Mommy, some cake, few laughs and that was it. Even if he wasn't known to the world on Feb 6th I would still think of him and in my heart say Happy Birthday Daddy. Love.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • World
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• For me, having a balance between work and personal life is very important.

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • Life
  • Work
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• I know nothing, I am neither woman nor girl; I have been living in a dream and when someone kissed me, it made me want to laugh. Now I am here before you, it seems as though I have just awakened and it is morning.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Dream
  • Girl
  • Morning

• What you learn at university is a good discipline but has little relevance to a real job.

  

  Chris Liddell
  • Good
  • Real
  • Job

• It's about polarization. You're trying to stir up something in your audience.

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.
  • Up
  • Trying

• When I was ten and in fifth grade, I read all of 'Robinson Crusoe' in one weekend.

  

  Kevin Young
  • Weekend