Ayad Akhtar Quotes

I'm a storyteller. I feel like the issue of discourse is an important one because there's a lot of political and ideological discourse that goes around, and we relate to that on an intellectual level.

Ayad Akhtar

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 28, 1970

Topics

FeelPoliticalImportantIntellectual

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.

Jesse Ventura

StrengthBusinessReligionPeopleGo

I don't want the kind of theater that I love and grew up seeing to die out.

Jerry Herman

LoveDieSeeingWantKindOut

Comedy has allowed me to be my 100-percent-true self, as opposed to other places, where I feel like that's been a hindrance. Whether it's music or poetry or hosting, people want you to be something else: they want you to be packaged in a certain way.

Amanda Seales

MusicPoetryPeopleMeSelfComedy

Consciousness turns out to consist of a maelstrom of events distributed across the brain. These events compete for attention, and as one process outshouts the others, the brain rationalizes the outcome after the fact and concocts the impression that a single self was in charge all along.

Steven Pinker

BrainSelfProcessAttentionOthers

I don't like singing before noon.

Sting

SingingLikeNoonBefore

I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I'm bullish about the Longhorns.

Tom Hicks

SportsReadingInsightTwoOwnFan

My parents were born in 1912; they graduated from college into the Depression. They kept notebooks of every nickel they spent, and these habits of frugality from having grown up so poor never left them.

Roz Chast

DepressionParentsCollegeBornPoor

Anytime you do anything, you want to know who was the best at it.

Jon Beason

BestYouKnowWantAnythingWho

Boxing is about hunger.

Diego Luna

BoxingHungerAbout

I enjoy being out; I like being around people, but at a certain point in time, I kind of run out of charming, and I'm ready to go home, and I'm very comfortable alone.

Doug Ducey

HomeAloneTimePeopleEnjoyRun

If you try to please everybody, somebody's not going to like it.

Donald Rumsfeld

YouTryGoingSomebodyLikePlease

Your genes are not your fate... if you change your lifestyle, you change your genes.

Dean Ornish

ChangeFateYouLifestyleGenes

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