Best Kramer Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Kramer's sits on Connecticut Avenue just north of Dupont Circle and is a Washington institution of sorts, functioning as a bookstore, restaurant, and bar all in one. The front always swarms with people perusing the book displays, which overflow with stacks of paperbacks and hardbacks, everything from political memoirs to the juiciest works of fiction.”

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Book:The Girls' Guide to Love and Supper Clubs

Source: The Girls' Guide to Love and Supper Clubs

“Whoa... don't go all Kramer on me!”

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Author:Glenn Beck

“Atlantic reckoned we should use a top Yank producer and appointed one Eddie Kramer to the post. It turns out the guy was full of bullshit and couldn't produce a healthy fart.”

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Author:Bon Scott

“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.”

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Author:Wesley Morris

“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.”

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Author:Michael R. Burch

“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.”

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Author:Aziz Ansari

“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.”

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Book:Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks

Source: Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks

“I wasn't involved in anything. I wasn't out - you know, I know I wasn't in ACT UP. I wasn't with Larry Kramer. I wasn't by his side. I wasn't saying what I should do, because, by all accounts, I was a drug addict and an alcoholic. And I was living in a complete bubble of self-absorption.”

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Author:Elton John

“Tony Kushner has said that Larry [Kramer] thinks everyone always has to agree with him.”

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Author:Kevin Sessums

“Is it easier for you to have straight friends, Larry [Kramer], since you seem so often disappointed in your gay friends who can't live up to what you expect of them as gay people?”

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Author:Kevin Sessums

“I was so unhappy as a child in Washington I figured if I'm going to Yale, I am going to start a new life. I'll change my name to my middle name. So I was known for my four years at Yale as David Kramer.”

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Author:Kevin Sessums

“When I graduated [from Yale], I went back to Larry [Kramer]. But when I go to Yale reunions, there are still people who call me David.”

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Author:Kevin Sessums

“We didn't know each other [with Larry Kramer at Yale], but we had a lot of mutual friends.”

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Author:Kevin Sessums

“There was a Yale even before Larry [Kramer] and I got there, and there were three designations of students: "white shoe," "brown shoe," and "black shoe." "White shoe" people were kind of the ur-preppies from high-class backgrounds. "Brown shoe" people were kind of the high school student-council presidents who were snatched up and brushed up a little bit to be sent out into the world. "Black shoe" people were beyond the pale. They were chemistry majors and things like that.”

“"Weenie" was definitely a word we used at Yale back then. But I'm not sure you were one, Larry [Kramer]. Also, you were going by a different name.”

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Author:Kevin Sessums

“I believe we really became friends [with Larry Kramer] when we bonded at our fifteenth class reunion in 1972.”

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Author:Kevin Sessums

“Larry [Kramer] and I often disagree. There was the whole meshuggaas we went through about his donating his papers to Yale, and I disagreed with him on a number of things about that. You wanted a gay center.”

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Author:Kevin Sessums

“[Larry Kramer] said, when it was all about to fall through, "You betrayed me, Calvin." And I said, "I resent that. I was against you from the beginning."”

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Author:Kevin Sessums

“Everyone disappoints [Larry Kramer]. So it's not a problem for him either way.”

Way Problem Disappoint Larry Kramer

Author:Kevin Sessums

“Those people are seen, I assume, by Larry [Kramer] as writing partly about gay issues and problems, whether it's on the surface or not, and I am not. But another thing is when we met, there still wasn't exactly a gay/straight divide in the minds of a lot of straight people. There weren't any gay people, as far as we knew, at Yale.”

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Author:Kevin Sessums

“I talked to [Larry] Kramer a little bit about it while I was writing 'Remembering Denny' . Denny was one of those people who took a long time to come out.”

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Author:Kevin Sessums

“I could appear in this million-word book [Larry Kramer] are working on. Nobody would even notice me.”

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Author:Kevin Sessums

“[Larry Kramer] thinks Charles de Gaulle was gay. He thinks Max Schmeling was gay.”

Thinking Gay Max Larry Kramer

Author:Kevin Sessums

“[Larry Kramer] got really mad at me once. The precipitating incident was a speech at Yale by the first President Bush's Secretary of Heath and Human Services, Louis Sullivan, against which Larry led a demonstration. He got the demonstrators to drown out Sullivan's speech, which wasn't allowed.”

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Author:Kevin Sessums

“[Larry Kramer] even wrote this angry letter to the president of Yale, and in it he said what he said to us, that he was so disappointed in his straight friends because of AIDS and everything. He wrote the letter around March. And in it he wrote, "I usually go to the Trillins for Christmas, but I just couldn't do it this year."”

Years Said President Letters Angry Aids March Disappointed Larry Yale Kramer

Author:Kevin Sessums

“I wrote an essay too, and mine started something like, "When I was asked to contribute to this book, I said, 'I could do a piece on [Larry] Kramer as a pain in the ass, but I suppose you have too many of those, as it is.'" And Sarah's began something like, "When I read about America's angriest AIDS activist, I can't believe they are talking about my sweet Uncle Larry."”

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Author:Kevin Sessums

“Larry [Kramer] had already experienced so much loss by then from the AIDS epidemic. But I don't think it changed anything between us.”

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Author:Kevin Sessums

“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.'”

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Author:Tony Kushner

“I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.”

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Author:Meryl Streep

“It is in our nature to destroy what we create. (Dr. Paul Kramer)”

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Author:Alex Scarrow

“The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.”

Art Artist Explanation Maximum Kramer

Author:Hilton Kramer

“Not that there's anything wrong with that.”

Memorable Thirsty New Music Kramer Performance Review

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“Stanley Kramer? Spencer Tracy? No one turns down being in a movie with them.”

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Author:Phil Silvers

“I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex.”

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Author:Robert Benton

“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.”

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Author:Jonny Greenwood

“After the German occupation of Holland in May 1940, the last two dark years of the war I spent hiding indoors from the Nazis, eating tulip bulbs to fill the stomach and reading Kramers' book "Quantum Theorie des Elektrons und der Strahlung" by the light of a storm lamp.”

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Author:Nicolaas Bloembergen

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