Damian Kulash Quotes

#1. I think professional cosmonaut trainer in fact said that we are the only two [with Damian Kulash ] he found fit to be astronauts, which is ridiculous because we are far from fit from being astronauts. So you can imagine what was going on up there.

Trish Sie

#2. I'm very active in pushing for net neutrality and an open Internet. There are countless other causes I support personally and privately, but I try to keep my public activism fairly focused.

Damian Kulash

#3. If you have a lot of fans, you have a powerful soapbox, but you still have to have something to say when you're on that soapbox if you want to make a real difference.

Damian Kulash

#4. When the morning comes, let it go, this too shall pass.

Ok Go

#5. Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.

John Steinbeck

#6. I will say that the lead cosmonaut trainer - I mean, we were working with professional cosmonaut trainers outside of Moscow. And the lead one, at the end of the project, announced to the entire group that he wanted Trish [Sie] to be on his team forevermore.

Damian Kulash

#7. Everyone loves the idea of internet fast enough that HD movies download in seconds, but if only the telecoms or their partners get to use the high speeds, it's not the internet: It's glorified cable.

Damian Kulash

#8. The human creature is so astonishing, but count on it before anything else to be just that-a creature. A laughing animal, a dangerous one, a clever one, a scared one, but always acting for a reason-a motive that will move the beast towards its desires.

Jeffery Deaver

#9. If some dude I'd never heard of managed to broadcast a platitude like that to the whole globe, I'd probably just feel like I was being spammed.

Damian Kulash

#10. I like shooting things in single takes. You have to rely on the idea itself to carry the full weight; you're always watching the idea, not the filmmaking.

Damian Kulash

#11. Nobody, especially Vince McMahon, tells Stone Cold Steve Austin what to do, and that's the bottom line!

Stone Cold Steve Austin

#12. I've learned that it doesn't matter how your husband squeezes the toothpaste, the important thing is how he squeezes you.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#13. I'm passionate about music, food, books, film, blah, blah. The same things everyone is passionate about, no? Love, sex, connection. Peace. Not f - - g up our planet.

Damian Kulash

#14. I can't imagine everyone on the planet would want to hear something from me. If I thought they'd listen, I'd probably ask them to try to be nicer to each other, to try to be less scared of their differences.

Damian Kulash

#15. What puts me in a vulnerable state? Beauty, wonder, surprise, mystery. Stuff like that.

Damian Kulash

#16. There's no hope of people paying attention to your music video if you don't let others use it,

Damian Kulash

#17. For me, it works best to plan just enough to come up with a good direction to head out in. Then I start down the path as soon as I can, without a very clear idea of what exactly I'm going to end up with. I try to leave a lot of time for flexibility and play and changing direction.

Damian Kulash

#18. A lot of things get made this way: someone imagines what they want to make, then very carefully plans every step of the process, then sets about making it. That's usually the efficient, reasonable way to get something done, but it limits you to ideas you can think of in advance.

Damian Kulash

#19. Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.

John F. Kennedy

#20. Favorite Joke: 9 out of 10 people enjoy gang rape.

Damian Kulash

#21. I can't stand things that are poorly made or shoddily conceived. I feel like I'm being insulted when something is poorly designed, poorly made. It's like whoever made that thing didn't respect the rest of us enough to do it well.

Damian Kulash

#22. I think that artists and musicians can do as much harm as good for causes if they tie their names to lots of things, especially if they aren't really doing much to meaningfully push their causes forward.

Damian Kulash

#23. No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

Sarah Josepha Hale

#24. I can have fairly crippling self-criticism. It doesn't really put me in a vulnerable state, I just get glum and intolerable, but it certainly is a vulnerability.

Damian Kulash

#25. Not only does the summer bring warm weather and tons of summer activities, but it also yields a fresh crop of increasingly useful avocados!

Marcus Samuelsson

#26. My best ideas almost always come from winding up in unexpected places and stumbling across things I never could have imagined in advance.

Damian Kulash

#27. My good friends are Mormon, some of the best people I know.

Katherine Heigl

#28. It's the good old paradox of democracy. We are individually pretty small drops in the bucket, but collectively we are all powerful.

Damian Kulash

#29. Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.

Charles Handy

#30. I dream of a house full of books.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#31. You can't just wish strength for yourself. Or wisdom. Or resilience. Those things have to be earned.

Katherine Center

#32. Actually, here is something I'm passionate about that, looking around me, seems like the world at large must not care about as much as I do: craft.

Damian Kulash

#33. It is not enough that you can form nay, and follow, the most excellent rules for conducting yourself in the world. You must also know when to deviate from them, and where lies the exception.

Sir Fulke Greville

#34. Poets ... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.

Archibald MacLeish

#35. Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when the presume to anticipate custom.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#36. Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body.

Sir Fulke Greville