John Gay Quotes
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.
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For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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We believe that when you make Black America better - you make all of America better.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
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Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.
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I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.
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I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
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Many novice writers try to avoid using 'said' by substituting synonyms: 'he uttered,' 'she murmured,' 'he questioned.' It's true that any word repeated too often becomes monotonous, but substitutions for 'said' can be worse than its repetition.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
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People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.
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Thanks to every gay person in public and non-public life who has come out.
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I used to sneak into my mother's closet and try to wear her lingerie to school.
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In the acting community in New York we call 'Law & Order' 'grad school,' because everyone eventually does a 'Law & Order.' My first one was in 1995, which was a year after I got out of school. Matthew Blanchard was the character's name.
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Women expect us to like them, but they don't even like each other
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If you believe that a given situation should make you unhappy, then it will, and the unhappiness will then reinforce the condition.
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Mike Tyson was one of the fighters who motivated me. How? We both used to train at the Golden Gloves boxing gym. I used to see his Rolls-Royce, his diamond Rolex on, and I said, 'You know what? Those are the things that I want.'
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Women in Afghanistan do not ask the United States to stay for the simple or sentimental reason of safeguarding their rights. They are the first ones to say that this is not enough of a reason for the world's remaining superpower to remain in their country.
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Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!
