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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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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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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Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of a novel: what's going to happen in each chapter and each scene.
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In the 20th century, we built a lot of walls - we endlessly tried to build walls between us and people we perceived, correctly or incorrect, as our enemies. In the 21st century, because of the advent of networks, the free movement of goods and people across the globe, we need to build security by building bridges instead of building walls.
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I didn't take into account the critical tsunami that comes with having work going out. I've gone from being a complete narcissist, someone who googles my own name, to someone who has to work separately from that to avoid creative paralysis.
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The beauty industry is just like the fashion industry - prejudice is ingrained. But with new people coming in with fresh eyes and passion, I definitely am seeing progress.
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Swaraj can only be achieved through an all-round consciousness of the masses.
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What is needed is the constant unmasking of ego's strategy.
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The assimilationist movement is running us into the ground.
