Harry Hay Quotes
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My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.
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I love cats. I've had cats as pets.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
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The object before us, to begin with, material production.
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
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The Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in ... Guys would drink and fight one another like circle saws. Bottles would come flying over the bandstand like crazy and there was lots of plain common shooting and cutting. But somehow all that jive didn't faze me at all. I was so happy to have some place to blow my horn.
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Amnesty, n. The state’s magnaminity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
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When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.
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I shall now proceed to my own experience, which hath truly convinced me, the Lord is awakened as one out of sleep; and the voice of the Lord will shake terribly the earth.
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Music is escapism, it's entertainment.
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I think that, generally, a woman brings in luck for her husband after marriage, but in my case, my husband is lucky for me.
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Being an actor, I've thought about being in the male gaze.
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Political differences will always generate a healthy debate, but over time the dialogue has become more hateful and at times violent.
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When I'm in town on Sundays, I sometimes go down to the Central Bar in the East Village to watch English football. But my natural inclination now is to get in the car with my wife and kids and get out of town.
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Why is it every time there is a tragedy in the U.S., President Obama blames the gun rather than the criminal?
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Sometimes, I play a round of extremely poor golf.
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I believe in discussing very thoroughly what should be the goal. When discussing it, I allow others to give their views.
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Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.
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To say that an author is a reader or a reader an author, to see a book as a human being or a human being a book, to describe the world as text or a text as the world, are ways of naming the readers craft.
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Home was something besides so much lumber and plaster. You built your thoughts into the frame work. You planted a little of your heart with the trees and the shrubbery.
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So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.
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The assimilationist movement is running us into the ground.
