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.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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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.
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India may be a land of over a 100 problems, but it is also a place for a billion solutions.
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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.
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To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
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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.
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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.
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Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Passion provides purpose, but data drives decisions.
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The people in Dominica and the small communities where I were had no idea who I was, and there's no better security than that.
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I try to write catchy hooks but, at the same time, things that mean something that will provoke thought.
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You'll never find me in a gym.
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Brother says he's telling about you playing Doctor with that girl.
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When I see a spade, I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use it. It's the only thing he's fit for.
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Courage is not a quality one normally associates with mathematicians. Yet it should apply to people who work in their attics in secret for seven years without cease on a problem that has eluded the greatest mathematical minds since first proposed in 1637.
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Over the years my religion has changed and my spirituality has evolved. Religion and spirituality are very different, but people often confuse the two. Some things cannot be taught, but they can be awakened in the heart. Spirituality is recognizing the divine light that is within us all. It doesn't belong to any particular religion; it belongs to everyone.
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I always say to people, "If you share my dream, why don't we walk together?" And that's my only organizing tool.
