Fady Joudah Quotes

#1. Memory shrinks until it fits in a fist
memory shrinks without forgetting

Fady Joudah

#2. The more money you make, the more the culture already attracts you to serve it, with an aura of glitter and power, to reproduce it in even stronger ways. And you have to resist that so much if any meaningful artistic integrity is to be had.

Fady Joudah

#3. I have a problem with the fact that when it's brought up, it's not really discussed. It's all that's brought up. So-and-so is an Arab American or a Palestinian or Muslim or a doctor with or without borders and there's really no meaningful entry into those hyphenations.

Fady Joudah

#4. Communicate with your fans or customers. They know we live in an ever changing world. If you tell them what you are thinking and why you are doing what you do, as I did with my blog regarding Nash leaving, they will respect and support you more.

Mark Cuban

#5. I don't think art is in danger of dissolution or disappearance, and we don't trust enough in its ability and power to create critical consciousness as much as we think we do.

Fady Joudah

#6. Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.

George Bernard Shaw

#7. Good my lord, be cured
Of this diseased opinion, and betimes.
For 'tis most dangerous.

William Shakespeare

#8. Sex is like having dinner: sometimes you joke about the dishes, sometimes you take the meal seriously.

Woody Allen

#9. I hope some day to meet God, because I want to thank Him for the flowers.

Robert Breault

#10. For me, poetry is a form of activism. And that word enables the labelers, and also gives them a rash.

Fady Joudah

#11. Having financial independence does not increase one's chances of independent, artistic creation whatsoever. Our conditioned behavior toward mimicry for the sake of market forces is an amazing syndrome. The watchtowers guide us well.

Fady Joudah

#12. For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed hot woman of 40 +, there is a balding, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some 22-year-old waitress.

Andy Rooney

#13. But I have to warn you that this is the word - 'politics' - that nerds use whenever they feel impatient about the human realities of an organization.

Neal Stephenson

#14. Words themselves aren't that important. Even if somebody says words that shock you, or make you want to kill them, or make you tremble with emotion, the words themselves you tend to forget in time. Words are just tools we use to express or communicate something.

Ryu Murakami

#15. I'm a Jew. Thirty-three is when Christ died. So though I'm a Jew, in the back of my mind I still think that I gotta get it done before I'm thirty-four because well, I don't know why. He got it done before He was thirty-four.

Jack Black

#16. Since so much of the poetry machine is consumed in and with the mirroring and the reproduction of what is already preexistent, I don't understand why such paranoiac conservatism is dedicated to labels. It's a way of controlling the "other," to label them.

Fady Joudah

#17. As for the heart
It needs a beginning
The narrative
Burden of events

Fady Joudah

#18. Even the art of quoting is a conservative art most of the time, in order to propel the same ideas and the same self-congratulatory importance.

Fady Joudah

#19. I will concentrate on playing guitar, on lyrics and on singing. I am a part of things; I am not the encompassing 'Smog.'

Bill Callahan

#20. We fall into the old stuff of textuality, and almost everything becomes safe because nobody wants to talk about what is not safe in poetry. We fall back on the psychologic, the ethnic, the quota, and serve the perpetuation of the machine.

Fady Joudah