Top 100 Kramer's Quotes
#1. The bravery of Stanley Kramer's 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' amounted to two Hollywood legends - Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy - telling the world that a black son-in-law is something they can live with, and so should you, especially if he looks like Sidney Poitier and has degrees.
Wesley Morris
#2. A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer's 'The Normal Heart.'
Tony Kushner
#3. I'm sure I've all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer's 'It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World' as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.
Dick Cavett
#4. Peter Breggin, an American psychiatrist, had been criticising SSRIs since the early 1990s. He wrote 'Talking Back to Prozac' (1995) to repudiate psychiatrist Peter Kramer's 'Listening to Prozac' (1993) - a bestseller which claimed that Prozac made patients 'better than well.'
John Cornwell
#5. There's no doubt in my mind that I wouldn't be in the position that I am if I didn't have my 'One Tree Hill' fans. They're the most dedicated, devoted fans. They're behind you no matter what. If one person says one bad thing about me on Twitter, they're fighting back!
Jana Kramer
#6. Writers are given one great story to tell their story. I'm telling my story as a political document.
Larry Kramer
#7. She who follows another's course, finds a sure path to her own remorse.
John Kramer
#8. There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But how can there be any other issue in the face of death, possible extinction?
Larry Kramer
#9. The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.
Hilton Kramer
#10. In Detroit, it was an average night to go and hear the Stooges, Parliament-Funkadelic and the MC5 on the same show. We were all into the 'Free Jazz' movement, the musics of Ornette Coleman and Sun Ra; and experimenting with guitar sounds, and trying different beats, and pushing the rhythm farther...
Wayne Kramer
#11. When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos.
Wayne Kramer
#12. We didn't exist. Ronald Reagan didn't say the word 'AIDS' until 1987. I've tried desperately to get a meeting in the White House; Gay Men's Health Crisis is already an established organization. I have a certain presence.
Larry Kramer
#13. It's the oldest story in the world. You want him back, don't you?
Larry Kramer
#14. I was five years old, onstage singing 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' - a rock version - and I was always wanting to entertain. But the biggest thing for me is just country music has helped me get through the worst times of my life and the best times of my life. I want to give that back to people.
Jana Kramer
#15. Behind closed doors, good men are often more mischievous and exasperating than the truly bad ones. The difference is they're naughty because they're happy - boys at heart, no matter how many responsibilities they bear or how old they become.
Kieran Kramer
#16. Not by prayers alone will a captive be freed, but by another man's prayers matched by his deeds.
John Kramer
#17. If Fred's history will seem less unbiased then some would wish, let it never be overlooked that it is no small task to record a history of hate when one is among the hated.
Larry Kramer
#18. The law is like one of those sci-fi creatures that keeps growing limbs and spawning replicas of itself until they take over the entire world.
Melody A. Kramer
#19. Like the deepest secrets in a psychoanalysis, our lives stay hidden, harboring our precious information like a piece of decaying food behind a major molar in our country's maw,
Larry Kramer
#20. No religion wants us. We're going to have to invent our own.
Larry Kramer
#21. I do not like to see men walk away from women in late middle age.
Peter D. Kramer
#22. Dangerous, free time on your hands. You can only jerk off so often.
Larry Kramer
#23. Was it not better to wear it, do it, live it, than suppress it? That only leads, on an international scale of course, to war.
Larry Kramer
#24. Almost more than talent you need tenacity, and an infinite capacity for rejection, if you are to succeed.
Larry Kramer
#25. All your life has been a journey to find an identity.
Larry Kramer
#26. To have that kind of ovation, that happens very seldom for a lineman.
Jerry Kramer
#27. I'm always pursuing the next dream, hunting for the next truth.
Stanley Kramer
#28. The success of Prozac says that today's high-tech capitalism values a very different temperament. Confidence, flexibility, quickness, and energy - the positive aspects of hyperthymia - are at a premium.
Peter D. Kramer
#29. Closets, schmosets, everyone's out of the closet. Now where the fuck are the men!
Larry Kramer
#30. This is always history's greatest failure, its inability to believe what it sees, what, almost always, someone sees.
Larry Kramer
#31. See what I mean? Your confidence is so strong it's obnoxious.
Stacy Kramer
#32. It's easier to invade a small country than to file a court document.
Melody A. Kramer
#33. Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.
Larry Kramer
#34. When people come into the office and say they've tried to make their marriage work, and I hear what the effort was, it seems to me that there's some lack of understanding of what effort is.
Peter D. Kramer
#35. It's like that scene from The Player when they talk about merging Star Wars and Kramer vs. Kramer, or whatever. You could do that with music and it would just be awful.
Jonny Greenwood
#36. There's a great deal of love for one another on this club. Perhaps we're living in Camelot.
Jerry Kramer
#37. Irwin F. Gellman's Secret Affairs: FDR, Cordell Hull, and Sumner Welles,
Larry Kramer
#38. The people's silence is a tyrant's greatest advocate. The less captives talked, the less they knew; the less they knew, the more they feared; and the more they feared, the more easily others could manipulate them to their own ends, the more easily the captives could be controlled.
John Kramer
#39. My favorite Galaxie 500 album is the first one, 'Today,' recorded in three days at Noise New York and produced by Kramer. It contains my favorite Galaxie 500 songs: 'Temperature's Rising,' 'Tugboat,' and our interpretation of Jonathan Richman's 'Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste.'
Dean Wareham
#40. Public awareness is the equinox of tyranny's rise; once one man learns of another's captivity, he will act to free him. It is the best and most certain part of man's nature.
John Kramer
#41. The coolest thing, too, is that people that have never even seen 'One Tree Hill' tell me, 'I love your music.' And I'm like, 'Oh, do you watch the show?' And they say 'No.' And to me that's even cooler because that means I'm actually starting to get country fans.
Jana Kramer
#42. I have too much drive and determination to let anything falter me. Because I know that life's short and there's so much that I wanna do, and I can't do anything that might hold me back or get stuck in.
Jana Kramer
#43. Bib Block was sure that in any part of the country at all, whenever the name of this road was mentioned, people's hearts pivoted like Moslems to the east and flopped over. Sooner of later, he believed, at one stage of the journey or another, all roads led to the New Jersey Turnpike.
Kathryn Kramer
#44. It's honestly every time that I'm doing something, and every time I visit a station and hear my song on the radio and people buying my stuff, I'm like 'Are you kidding me? This is insane!'
Jana Kramer
#45. Donald Trump's hairpiece has reportedly narrowed its list of running partners down to Don King, Kramer, William Shatner, Dolly Parton and Phil Spector, and has no worries about being upstaged.
Michael R. Burch
#47. As' is the most difficult word in a Christian's life. We have to forgive 'as' we want to be forgiven.
John Kramer
#48. One of mankind's greatest sins is inaction in the face of injustice.
John Kramer
#49. I was a bit scared because I came from the acting world. There was a fear that people would think of me kind of as a joke. But really, people think of me as a country artist who can act. That's my favorite compliment.
Jana Kramer
#50. It sounds so cheesy, even I don't buy it. And it's currently happening to me.
Stacy Kramer
#51. When a psychiatrist writes a bestseller, he is then urged to write a book of advice. But I think our culture's awash in advice. The problem is we don't know whether it applies to us or whether we're an exception.
Peter D. Kramer
#52. You have to work with the paint and work with whatever the day brings you. If it's a wee bit dreary out, you paint it. But paint it so it makes you glad to be inside near a cozy fire.
Kieran Kramer
#53. We have to think bigger as writers. We have to try and change the world.
Larry Kramer
#54. Everyone steals. My favorite movie is Love Don't Cost a Thing with Nick Cannon. Which is based on Can't Buy Me Love, which is based on Kramer vs. Kramer, or something, which I think was Shakespeare.
Aziz Ansari
#55. I'll never sing something that I've never been through. So even if I didn't write it, I have to have at least experienced it.
Jana Kramer
#56. Depression, in its insidious way, acts as a degenerative disease, harming nerve cells. Like
Peter D. Kramer
#57. I play by the rules even when there aren't any.
Stacy Kramer
#58. The media in America is not covering American AIDS very much. They're covering African AIDS as if somehow miraculously it's all stopped here. Well, it hasn't, and the one thing they're not saying about Africa is that all those people are going to die; there's no way these people can be saved - none.
Larry Kramer
#59. We were the generation psychoanalysts tried to change.
Larry Kramer
#60. Old #64 chose ... a gentle jog, fast enough to prove I was alive, slow enough to savor the cheers. They washed over me. They warmed me. I knew I could live without them but I loved them.
Jerry Kramer
#61. It's happened before. It's all happened before. History is worth shit.
Larry Kramer
#62. The guys in New York don't know the new media. San Francisco takes more risks as a culture.
Larry Kramer
#63. Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
Wayne Kramer
#65. We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.
Larry Kramer
#67. Every war, every plague is God's judgment. But every man who rises up to stop the wars and the plagues is God's instrument. Human action is God's will, not blind indifference in the face of suffering.
John Kramer
#68. Is an ending really another beginning?
Mark Kramer
#69. Archaeological discoveries made in Egypt and in the Near East in the past hundred years have opened our eyes to a spiritual and cultural heritage undreamed of by earlier generations.
Samuel Noah Kramer
#70. I don't consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fighting tools.
Larry Kramer
#71. I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?
Larry Kramer
#72. I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.
Meryl Streep
#73. The point about L-O-V-E is that we hate the word. Because we vulgarize it. It should be taboo, forbidden from utterance for many years, till we've found a new and a better idea.
Larry Kramer
#74. We have created our own aesthetic!"
"You mean our own Ghetto.
Larry Kramer
#75. Have you any idea how long a ten-inch cock is?
Larry Kramer
#76. Of course, even though Peter and I have had our disagreements, we share a bond I'd defend to the death if needs be. If all goes according to the natural order of things, siblings will know us longer than our parents, longer than our spouses and friends. Lord Westdale to Duncan
Kieran Kramer
#77. In Los Angeles there's, like, this awful image because the girls are so skinny. I don't think it's attractive whatsoever, and I also think that it gives a bad image to kids that are in their early teens. It's not healthy.
Jana Kramer
#78. Normally, if you go through a game without attracting attention, you are doing a hell of a job.
Jerry Kramer
#79. I love being gay. I love gay people. I think we're better than other people. I really do. I think we're smarter and more talented and more aware. I do, I totally do. I really do think all of these things. And I try very hard to remember all this.
Larry Kramer
#80. They devised such useful tools, skills, and techniques as the potter's wheel, the wagon wheel, the plow, the sailboat, the arch, the vault, the dome, casting in copper and bronze, riveting, brazing and soldering, sculpture
Samuel Noah Kramer
#81. The system will always be here. The system doesn't change.
Larry Kramer
#82. And I always thought: the very simplest words Must be enough. When I say what things are like Everyone's heart must be torn to shreds. That you'll go down if you don't stand up for yourself Surely you see that.
Larry Kramer
#83. Hockey is my favorite because I'm from Michigan. I used to figure-skate and root for the Red Wings.
Jana Kramer
#84. Mr. Do-Nothing Obama will say today, 'Lets think of all the poor dead people' - or 'let's honor all the dead' instead of fighting for the living. He has been really useless in terms of both HIV and gay issues. He is simply not a leader. He may be president, but he is not a leader.
Larry Kramer
#85. Looking thirty, claiming forty, actually forty-five.
Larry Kramer
#86. The straight and narrow, so beloved of our founding fathers and all fathers thereafter, is now obviously and irrevocably bent. What is God trying to tell us ... ?
Larry Kramer
#87. And you can't do anything without God. God hates us, you know. That's why so many believe we have to love Him so much. What feeble goddamned pussies we are.
Larry Kramer
#88. Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
Larry Kramer
#89. Whatever anyone says or does is more about them than it is about me...
Jacqueline Kramer
#90. College was especially sweet because of the positive, hopeful atmosphere of a college campus.
Jerry Kramer
#91. I'm from Michigan, but I'm just as country as anyone else. Maybe I don't have the speaking voice of most country singers, but it is what I love. It's how I've always sung, and it's what I grew up on.
Jana Kramer
#93. As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We learned more songs and we learned how to play Chuck Berry music and we learned Ventures songs.
Wayne Kramer
#94. AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.
Larry Kramer
#95. Guys find me neutered, detached, invisible. I'm Switzerland. The girls Max dates are Brazil.
Stacy Kramer
#96. Some of the worst villains and the biggest fools have good looks.
Kieran Kramer
#97. L.A. was never me. Nashville is my home.
Jana Kramer
#98. We will pay any price that we are instructed to. But the money has to come from somewhere.
Jerry Kramer
#99. no stone. Except for the huge reeds in the marshes, it had no trees for timber. Here, then, was a region with
Samuel Noah Kramer
#100. I never want to be too mean with my songs, but with 'I Hope It Rains' it was definitely somewhere in the middle with being sassy but also a little class in there as well. It was a good blend for me and who I want to be perceived as an artist.
Jana Kramer
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