John Grant Quotes
When I came out, I found I hadn't been born with the right genes. It's quite brutal. If you're beautiful and you have the right genes, then the gay scene is a place where you can be worshipped. But if you don't, it's a different ball of wax.
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Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.
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But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.
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I walk my dog at dawn because I don't like people to be around.
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Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.
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I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.
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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
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Seventy percent of the fish we eat is black market, fished in violation of international laws. Our ignorance makes us unwilling partners in crime. Rogue economics is turning the global market into our worst nightmare.
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But for fatherhood advice, try to look your child in the eye.... Get to know their name; that becomes important when you want something. And remember to feed them. That's about all you need.
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The biggest problem almost all comics face is not piracy or demographics or any of that nonsense: it's obscurity.
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We have young studs, ... They are not only really good players but advanced and good people. They know how to act. It's fun to watch these guys. I'm just excited to be a part of it.
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There's something called latent PTSD. It manifests itself in different ways. I want to be free of it, but I'm not.
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When I came out, I found I hadn't been born with the right genes. It's quite brutal. If you're beautiful and you have the right genes, then the gay scene is a place where you can be worshipped. But if you don't, it's a different ball of wax.
