Jonathan Groff Quotes
I haven't had anyone say, 'No, we can't because he's gay.' In fact, it's been quite the opposite.
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I have many, many gay friends.
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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.
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Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.
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I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found I had everything to learn.
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Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.
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I think the gay community, just like anybody, should be represented in all forms and all types.
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Having a baby had always seemed the easiest and most natural thing to do, and I had never felt - even in my most furtive days of coming out - that being gay would mean I could not become a mother.
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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.'
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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.
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You can be a man who loves a woman but love someone the way a gay man loves another man or a woman loves a woman.
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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.
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Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema.
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Modern elites live in bubbles of liberal affluence like Ann Arbor, Brookline, the Upper West Side, Palo Alto, or Chevy Chase. These places used to have impoverished neighborhoods nearby, but the poor people got chased out by young singles living in group homes, hipsters, and urban homesteading gay couples.
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I could try to incorporate or reflect in my models what it is that an employee, manager, or entrepreneur does: to recognize that most are engaged in their work, form expectations and evolve beliefs, solve problems, and have ideas. Trying to put these people into economic models became my project.
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As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life and thought, 'If I was gay, I'd be with him' - you know?
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If you've driven over to the gay section of Los Angeles, it's like a golf course... Real estate values go 'boom!'
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We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last election and realize that a third of the gay movement voted Republican.
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I have a very diverse crowd from old, young, black, white, straight, gay. It's a little bit of everybody.
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Black Lives Matter is one iteration of a much larger struggle to fight for black people's freedom.
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I've had a great experience in the fashion business.
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There were no vampires of note in Western literature until about the 18th century. But they tell us where we park our anxieties, whether its over-powerful women, death or damnation. We make our own monsters.
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I look for challenges. I really do.
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A short-term economic stimulus to help lift us out of this economic slowdown has to be followed by business tax credits and smart investments to sustain longer-term growth.
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I haven't had anyone say, 'No, we can't because he's gay.' In fact, it's been quite the opposite.
