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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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 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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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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When I'm with other people who inspire my silliness or sense of humor, I'm funny. When I sit down to write, it's hard not to be funny.
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I really like singing. I believe that if I wasn't a good singer, I would have been tossed out of school.
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The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.
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We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States.
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Not often do you approach a character where people know more about him than you do.
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'Superman' has always been about Lois Lane, Superman and Clark Kent and this love triangle between these three people who really are only two people.
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The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter.
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Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down.
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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.
