Harry Hay Quotes

I always say to people, "If you share my dream, why don't we walk together?" And that's my only organizing tool.

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• Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Life
  • Career
  • Medicine

• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Problem
  • Impossible
  • Rich

• You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Long
  • Book
  • Happiness

• Take your average couscous salad, and it's almost always a sloppy mush, no matter how much attention has gone into getting flavours in there.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Attention
  • Always
  • Salad

• In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • English
  • Better
  • Broken

• India may be a land of over a 100 problems, but it is also a place for a billion solutions.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • May
  • Problems
  • Place

• It was necessary to have an even depth of corn on the top compared to the sides, so the air would not take the easiest route and not evenly dry the stored corn.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Air
  • Take
  • Sides

• To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Life
  • View
  • Too Much

• I never publicise in advance what I'm going to be singing because I never quite know until I start. I often change my mind halfway through. I sometimes throw in stuff about politics or Shakespeare or do songs in Yiddish.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Singing

• They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • People
  • Me
  • Nice

• Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

  

  Ovid
  • Truth
  • Reality
  • Vision

• Netweaver was going to be the number one middleware player in the world. We heard about Netweaver day and night. Oracle became number one. No one talks about Netweaver.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • World
  • Night
  • Day

• I've evolved, but I'm the same dude, I'm just in a different place. We all change, we all grow. I shouldn't be in the same place that I was 30 years ago; I should be more intelligent, you know.

  

  Ice T
  • Different
  • Change
  • Intelligent

• I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?' And I would say I don't need religion to answer those questions.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Live
  • Desire
  • Religion

• The transformation of human consciousness through meditation is frustrated, as long as we think of it in terms as something that I, my self can bring about. because it leads to endless games of spiritual oneupmanship, and Guru competitions.

  

  Alan Watts
  • Long
  • Spiritual
  • Meditation

• He had at last discovered that love had no pith in it, and that the projection of one own's feelings upon the images of a beloved was in the long run, an act of self-mutilation.

  

  Lawrence Durrell
  • Long

• Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

  

  Francis Bacon

• Passion provides purpose, but data drives decisions.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Passion
  • Purpose

• I have never been able to remember the number of my driver's license, and there have been times when I couldn't even remember my own telephone number, but when I hear a song, sometimes only once, I never forget the melody or the lyric.

  

  Marlon Brando
  • Remember
  • Song
  • Lyric

• It's interesting to me that I get cast as mothers and really maternal, sweet, nice people... Maybe I have a vulnerability or something; maybe that's what it is.

  

  Elizabeth Reaser
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Nice

• Charlie would be so proud of what these young people are accomplishing today and, in true Charlie fashion, would encourage them to walk to the very edge of their comfort zone and then take another step.

  

  Lynn Schusterman
  • People
  • True
  • Today

• But I think the one thing that I can say about us is that we're very consistent about certain things and part of that is our desire to do the very best work that we can and not rest on our laurels, or not allow formula to come into what we do.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • Work
  • Desire
  • Rest

• I always say to people, "If you share my dream, why don't we walk together?" And that's my only organizing tool.

  

  Harry Hay
  • People
  • Dream