Harry Hay Quotes

Up until I was eleven years old, I thought I was the only one of my kind in the world. I couldn't find anybody else who felt as I did.

Harry Hay

• Eleven years

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• I'm happiest when I can just be a director and watch.

  

  Iain Glen
  • I Can
  • Director
  • Watch

• Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Great
  • Me
  • Mean

• The way I train, the way I spar, I'm out of my comfort zone every single day, and you can see the result in my fights.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Single
  • Day
  • Train

• Chinese people themselves, they really want change.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Want
  • Change

• You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it's Gary Oldman crying; it's not the character crying.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Character
  • Know
  • Down

• To Trump, whiteness is neither notional nor symbolic but the very core of his power. In this, Trump is not singular. But whereas his forebears carried whiteness like an ancestral talisman, Trump cracked the glowing amulet open, releasing its eldritch energies.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Power
  • Like
  • Trump

• I stopped singing for a long time because it just wasn't something I was very passionate about.

  

  BeBe Winans
  • Time
  • Long
  • Singing

• Things like Abu Ghraib and even Guantanamo are not new things: there are many precedents.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Like
  • New
  • New Things

• I have been doing commercials on camera since I was ten.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Doing
  • Camera
  • Commercials

• People ask about art and commercialism. I think that if someone tries to sell their work at a high price, that is the wrong way of doing it.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • People
  • Work
  • Art

• 'Who can I trust?' Arthur blurted out. 'Those who wish you well,' said the Old One. 'Not those who wish to use you well. Be a player, not a pawn. And that is three questions and all your time.'

  

  Garth Nix
  • Time
  • Wish
  • Trust

• I think there's some pretty amazing language in the Bible.

  

  Win Butler
  • Pretty
  • Amazing
  • Bible

• Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band.

  

  Les Claypool
  • Band

• A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

  

  Charles Inglis
  • War
  • Failure

• Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion.

  

  Brooke Shields
  • People
  • Control

• Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.

  

  Jane Mayer
  • True

• U.K. Athletics needs to develop a financial independence so it no longer has to be subject to the whim of politicians. If you are reliant on government, there is a big problem.

  

  Lynn Davies
  • Financial

• When I was working at Trio, I was pitched 'Queer Eye for the Straight Guy' and I knew, whoever gets this, this is a game changer. When I started at Bravo in 2005, it was a hit, and Season 1 of 'Project Runway' was in postproduction.

  

  Andy Cohen
  • Guy
  • Game

• I like doing Pilates because I get to lie down on the floor for the duration of the session.

  

  Lily Donaldson

• We will all be gone one day. Not as a negative thing - as a positive thing, too, you know, and we should leave something behind ourselves.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Day
  • Positive
  • Negative

• Well, the terrible thing right now, and I don't know the statistics, but there's a growing concern in some communities about how rapidly people are sent from school to jail, how quickly they're put into the criminal justice system. And of course the rapidly growing number of brown people, both men and women, in prison. And this is terrible.

  

  Anna Deavere Smith
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• I don't think you decree political positions.

  

  Danny K. Davis
  • Political

• I remember confuting one of Westminster's favourite maxims, "better the devil you know than the devil you don't". In the annals of popular wisdom, this is one of the most cretinous sayings I have come across.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Wisdom
  • I Remember
  • Maxims

• Up until I was eleven years old, I thought I was the only one of my kind in the world. I couldn't find anybody else who felt as I did.

  

  Harry Hay
  • Eleven years