Kind Quotes

• I can't tell you how many times I've had conversations with politicians who've done something morally reprehensible but not indictable, yet still think they should be able to stay in office. The office isn't a 'right.' It's a kind of loan.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Done
  • Think
  • Kind

• Horror fiction seems to spawn more dumbass 'rules' than any other kind of writing, and one of the dumbest is the assumed 'requirement' of a twist ending, going all the way back to H.H. Munro. This story is also the result of a long rumination on how stories are sometimes scuttled or diminished by succumbing to such 'rules'.

  

  David John Haskins Bauhaus
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Sometimes

• I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get things done.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Life
  • Done
  • Single

• I feel like in an interview situation, it's a kind of intimacy that I can understand and handle - versus in real life, when I'm much more of a bumbler and have a hard time.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Life
  • Time
  • Real

• I want to keep Flume kind of experimental, weird, melodic, pretty.

  

  Flume
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • Weird

• The complete self-absorption, and childish indulgence and disregard, and having to feel as though everything you're doing is so people can live vicariously through you, so you have to pursue more and more unpleasant pastimes in order to satisfy the armchair people. That's a kind of scary existence.

  

  Emily Haines Broken Social Scene
  • People
  • Existence
  • Scary

• We have pursued public policies that kind of hold the recovery back, but the private economy is really starting to roll.

  

  E. J. Dionne
  • Kind
  • Economy
  • Recovery

• My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • School
  • Art
  • Teach

• Every movie I make I find kind of excruciating. I get a lot back from it, but I feel like I'm kind of always working at the edge of my ability. I guess that's what I'm looking for when I go to work. I am trying to become the edge.

  

  Michelle Williams Destiny's Child
  • Trying
  • Feels
  • Ability

• There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools as to refuse good bank notes because there are false ones in circulation; and although we see here and there manifestations of what appears to us to be nothing more than mere earthly fire, we none the less prize and value, and seek for the genuine fire which comes from the altar of the Lord.

  

  William Booth
  • Different
  • Fool
  • Lord

• I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Party
  • Communist
  • Progressive

• I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Kind
  • Like
  • Serious

• Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It's this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angry.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Nature
  • Place
  • Angry

• I would never do 'Stardust Memories' because I don't particularly like that kind of movie - that would be why I wouldn't do that.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Why
  • Movie
  • Memories

• I just do as many songs as I can and then I put it together when I get sort of in the middle, maybe 30 songs, that's when I start really thinking about the name of the cd and what direction all the songs are going, that kind of stuff. But I don't ever want to corner myself, I just want to be able to express whatever I can express in songs and just pick after that.

  

  Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
  • Together
  • Stuff
  • Able

• It's kind of fun to listen to Christians who say: I'm a New Testament Christian. What other kind of Christian is there?

  

  Randall Terry
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Christian

• Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Flattery
  • Applause
  • Gross

• The architecture of the song, if it's built properly, can withstand all kinds of things.

  

  Emily Haines Broken Social Scene
  • Song
  • Kind
  • Architecture

• For me, the slower burn is a deeper and more effective scare. But I only like those kinds of scares when they're really earned. I don't like false scares.

  

  C Robert Cargill
  • Kind
  • Scare
  • Deeper

• Well, I'm not going to get into that. I think that those kind of distinctions and lists of titles like "street photographer" are so stupid. I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Thinking
  • Stupid
  • Photographer

• In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.

  

  Travis Barker Blink-182
  • Band
  • Rocks
  • Acoustics

• Strange sometimes how easy bitter words came, how hard the kind ones.

  

  Winston Grime
  • Words
  • Easy
  • Hard

• I know how to make other women look beautiful: from hair to makeup to wardrobe. So, I feel that I have a gift with imaging, and that's kind of fundamental to the music video process.

  

  Nia Long
  • Hair
  • Feels
  • Makeup

• Am I not sensitive, clever, well-mannered, considerate, passionate, charming, as kind as I'm handsome and heir to a throne?

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Clever
  • Passionate
  • Sensitive

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