Kind Quotes

With all of the people in Cuba who I met - many of them hugely heroic figures - I found learning about their complexity and richness and contradictions just really fascinating, and it was fulfilling to be able to offer a different side to them, to be able to have some kind of unique takeaway from the official narrative.

~ Brin-Jonathan Butler

The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins.

~ Dave Barry

Barbecue is an incredibly democratic food. It's cheaper than McDonald's in many places and far more delicious. On the other hand, the only reason it can be that cheap is they use commodity hogs, the worst of the worst, which is - you know, it's an industry kind of ruining North Carolina.

~ Michael Pollan

I watch Letterman. Once in a while, on the odd night, I'll catch the Food Network and watch 'Ace of Cakes,' which I'm kind of obsessed with.

~ Amanda Righetti

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

~ Albert Einstein

Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

~ Guy De Maupassant

The Seventies seemed like this really open time. There were a lot of strong women characters deciding what kind of artists they wanted to be.

~ Rachel Kushner

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

~ Maya Angelou

I think my best work is when I'm kind of in charge.

~ Chris Rock

I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have.

~ Terry Pratchett

Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.

~ Stanley Kubrick

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well and yet words are not deeds.

~ William Shakespeare

I'm a hacker, but I'm the good kind of hackers. And I've never been a criminal.

~ Mikko Hypponen

One way to break up any kind of tension is good deep breathing.

~ Byron Nelson

To come out and meet kids who have my books in their hands is kind of amazing.

~ Jeff Kinney

I've been incredibly fortunate to be able to have different opportunities and be able to choose, which is kind of amazing.

~ Steven Strait

If I was doing a talk show, I would do the kind of show that comes on just once a month, with amazing guests.

~ Whoopi Goldberg

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

~ John F. Lehman

I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady.

~ Juliette Lewis

Some men over-tweeze their eyebrows, and it's just too perfect. Men are meant to have kind of a bushy brow. Too much aftershave is also off-putting; it's one of my pet hates.

~ David Beckham

You kind of invite a little spooky, creepy vibe into your whole experience of making a movie.

~ Bruce Greenwood

Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.

~ V. S. Naipaul

Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.

~ Erykah Badu

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

~ H. P. Lovecraft

I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.

~ David Bowie

I was in a band in the '90s called Bikini Kill, and we were so freaked out about documentation then, and there was the whole thing, not just about the male gaze, but that people were going to misrepresent you... a kind fear of the mainstream that a lot of us had.

~ Kathleen Hanna

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

~ Charles Kennedy

As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president.

~ Keith Henson

Yeah, I'm kind of fit. And I'm quite careful about my diet.

~ Orlando Bloom

I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films.

~ Francis Ford Coppola

Medical tourism can be considered a kind of import: instead of the product coming to the consumer, as it does with cars or sneakers, the consumer is going to the product.

~ James Surowiecki

Courage is a kind of salvation.

~ Plato

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic.

~ T. J. Miller

There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

While they're in WWE, we absolutely have a health and wellness policy. I'll probably always say 'we,' even though I've resigned as the CEO. It's kind of hard to break a 30-year habit.

~ Linda Mcmahon

In his very first film, Mr. Gonzalez Inarritu makes the kind of journey some directors don't - or can't - travel in an entire career.

~ Elvis Mitchell

Remember travel agents? Remember how they just kind of vanished one day? Well, that's where all the other jobs that once made us middle class are going, to that same magical, class-killing, job-sucking wormhole into which travel agency jobs vanished, never to return.

~ Douglas Coupland

I like to go to work, and also, I don't have any kids. I don't have any hobbies. I don't like to travel. So going to work is kind of it.

~ Christopher Walken

I've gotten very cynical and kind of anhedonic about all the things I have to do to get to do comedy: all the travel, hotels, and airports.

~ Patton Oswalt