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.John Grant
Quotes to Explore
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Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
Og Mandino -
I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
Halston Sage -
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
W. Somerset Maugham -
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.
Abigail Breslin -
Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
Hans Kung -
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.
Carice van Houten
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If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.
Barry Pepper -
The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
Taylor Caldwell -
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.
Edmund White -
We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
T. D. Jakes -
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.
Karen DeCrow -
You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
Hamza Yusuf
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
D. H. Lawrence -
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.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
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.
Sally Field -
I walk my dog at dawn because I don't like people to be around.
Fiona Apple -
Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.
Jack Klugman -
I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.
Karen Duffy
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For the mob, habituated to feed at the expense of others, and to have its hopes of a livelihood in the property of its neighbors, as soon as it has got a leader sufficiently ambitious and daring, being excluded by poverty from the sweets of civil honors, produces a reign of mere violence.
Polybius -
Be sweet, be good, and honest always.
Emma Bunton Spice Girls -
They're pretty good actually, Hall & Oates. I gotta give them credit. They got a lot of toe-tappers.
Frank Black -
Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue]
W. Somerset Maugham -
I don't think my music has changed to reflect getting married or having kids. But... if you want to continue to write your own songs, you've got to find deeper stuff to write about. You've got to go to different places.
Dierks Bentley -
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.
John Grant