"The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem……" — Tony Kushner
"The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was deliberate."
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92 Quotes by Tony Kushner
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There are no gods here, no ghosts and spirits in America, there are no angels in America, no spiritual past,…
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Real love isn't ever ambivalent,
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If you [c]annot find your [h]eart's desire in your own backyard, you never lost it to begin with
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The body is the garden of the soul.
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It's the fear of what comes after the doing that makes the doing hard to do.
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Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work.
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I make my living now as a screenwriter! Which I’m surprised and horrified to find myself saying, but I don’t…
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The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a…
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The theater requires an essential gullibility that you can't get through life without having. If all you can feel is…
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You learn that existence is legible but that you have to have a critical mind if you're going to read…
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Theatre for a New Audience is one of America's most admirable and exciting theatre companites...some of the best acted and…
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More Anthem Quotes
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Anytime I sing the anthem, it is an honor and my heart beats out of my chest.
— Luke Bryan
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I've never been more nervous in my life than singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl.
— Kelly Clarkson
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I knew we were in for a long season when we lined up for the national anthem on opening day…
— Jim Leyland
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I looked up and saw my flag. But I didn't hear my anthem. The quotation above from 6 ft 4…
— Unknown Author
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We're going to be the best in the league at something. We're deep in anthem singers.
— Barry Trotz
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The only way you can check Gretzky is to hit him when he is standing still singing the national anthem.
— Harry Sinden
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I can't claim to know the words of all the national anthems in the world, but I don't know of…
— Ronald Reagan
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Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and…
— Aldo Leopold
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The national anthem of hell is, "I Did It My Way."
— Peter Kreeft
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Is not nationalism - that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder -…
— Howard Zinn
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...Surely, we must renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in…
— Howard Zinn
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If America is destroyed, it may be by Americans who salute the flag, sing the national anthem, march in patriotic…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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