David Furnish Quotes
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I gravitate toward contemporary art. I love great paintings, sculpture, photography, some video art.
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It's interesting how Rod Stewart can father a child at 65, and a straight, single footballer named Cristiano Ronaldo can arrange to have a surrogate have a baby, and neither of them receives any criticism.
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I'm always very proud when people ask me about being a Canadian.
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Fear and ignorance fuel so much homophobia.
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If you look at 'Gnomeo & Juliet,' the movie's message essentially says it doesn't matter if you're a 'red' or a 'blue': at the end of the day, parents should love their children and want what's best for them.
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I studied really, really hard, rather boringly.
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When you get the high art of William Shakespeare and the greatest love story ever told, and you collision crash it with the low art of the tacky garden gnome, you're going to have lots and lots of opportunity for fun and putting your tongue very firmly in your cheek.
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I've had many friends over the years who have been in same-sex relationships, and the family denies hospital visitations when one is sick. Or when the estate is settled and people who have built a life together has everything taken away from them either by the families or the taxman.
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We absolutely need more role models. I think we need more people to come forward and be proud of who they are.
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When Stephen Harper was elected as the new Conservative Prime Minister - and he talked about repealing gay marriage and putting it to a vote in the House of Commons - Elton and I talked about getting married in Canada to make a statement, for ideological and political reasons.
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I think if we could just level the playing field in life as much as possible, then we'd all be in a much better place.
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I came from a happy family with loving parents, so my associations with marriage and children were all happy, positive things that brought me comfort as a child, which I wanted in my life.
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Putin is lovely.
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People go forward in life. Bitterness and grudges and resentments only poison it.
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A good art collection is emblematic of the people collecting it.
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I was neeeever a cool kid.
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I haven't done much art shopping in Vegas. It tends to be from galleries that are London- or L.A.- or New York-based. We've never had someone standing over our shoulder telling us something is a good investment.
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People don't ask me for my autograph.
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Knowing your HIV status is so important for your future health and that of your loved ones.
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I think we all need to believe in hope: that if we have dreams and if we have ambitions and if we have skills and talents - that if you really put your heart into something and you work at it hard enough - that you can make your dreams come true.
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Animation films are about entertainment and about fun for the whole family, and if you went too far down a dark path, it's not what people, I think, expect from a great animated film.
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The past is past; what's gone on has gone on.
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If we can make HIV testing a normal part of looking after your health, we can truly envisage an AIDs-free future in the U.K.
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One of the reasons Elton and I entered into our partnership - the first day it became legal in Britain to do so - is that we felt it was an opportunity to protect ourselves with official recognition of our relationship.