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 think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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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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We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.
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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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You go back to my town, it's like going back to the 1960s... just not a great place to grow up.
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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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As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected.
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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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Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself.
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There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
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What did I really think fifteen years ago? A nonbeliever, I felt guilty in the midst of all those believers. And since it seemed to me that they were in the right, I decided to believe, as you might decide to take an aspirin: It can't hurt and you might get better.
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Everybody has his own great ideas about what my art should be. But I can do whatever I like and there aren't many constraints to the way I work, whether I'm using a brush with ink or paint.
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The assimilationist movement is running us into the ground.
