Jim Kolbe Quotes

I would rather be known as 'Jim Kolbe, the trade expert in Congress who happens to be gay,' rather than 'Jim Kolbe, gay congressman from Arizona.'

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• It is hard to watch myself. I'm hypercritical, and it's difficult to watch a performance when I may end up being at odds with it - wishing I'd done something differently or that they had edited it a certain way.

  

  Jack Falahee
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  • May

• Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • World
  • Man
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• On the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history as the first openly gay athlete to play in one of the four major U.S. sports leagues.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • History
  • Star
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• I've heard people tell me there's never been a gay character like Agron on TV before, and some fans have even thanked me because they now feel like they have a gay action hero, and it's very endearing to hear that kind of stuff. But I just played him the way he was and tried to do right by the character.

  

  Dan Feuerriegel
  • People
  • Character
  • Action

• We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Heart
  • American
  • Mom

• I never said I don't like gay people.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • People
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• Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Men
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  • Looking

• I think the gay community, just like anybody, should be represented in all forms and all types.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • Think
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• I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • People
  • Help
  • Gay

• There's not a day in my life I'm not proud of being gay, but I just wasn't ready for that attention to be placed on it. I remember being on Oprah. Well, not on Oprah. Near Oprah. She started saying, 'Now, Nathan, you got all those girlie moves going down in 'The Birdcage,' where's all that coming from? You're so good at all that girlie stuff!'

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Life
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• I think that there's no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Children
  • Friends
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• I've been close to two or three couples, gay and straight, who have been together for 45 years.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Together
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• No one today knows what is indecent.

  

  Jack Valenti
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• I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, 'Mom, I don't like direct sunlight, I don't like bugs, I don't like grass, and I'd rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.'

  

  Nate Berkus
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• I'm a gay man who came out when I was 10 years old, and there's nothing in my life that I'm prouder of.

  

  Sam Smith
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• I have so many gay friends that I love.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Love
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  • Gay

• The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • Time
  • Important
  • Wisdom

• When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.

  

  Dan Savage
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• Every American has a unique identity. I am proud to be gay. I am proud to be a Republican. But most of all, I am proud to be an American.

  

  Peter Thiel
  • American
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• And for me, it is a choice. I understand that for many people its not, but for me its a choice, and you dont get to define my gayness for me. A certain section of our community is very concerned that it not be seen as a choice, because if its a choice, then we could opt out. I say it doesnt matter if we flew here or we swam here, it matters that we are here and we are one group and let us stop trying to make a litmus test for who is considered gay and who is not.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
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• We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.

  

  Douglas Alexander

• It's not terrible, I guess, but if Ricky Gervais was half as talented as me, maybe the show would actually be funny once in a while.

  

  Zach Braff
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• I would rather be known as 'Jim Kolbe, the trade expert in Congress who happens to be gay,' rather than 'Jim Kolbe, gay congressman from Arizona.'

  

  Jim Kolbe
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