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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It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way.
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It's nice not to have to live a double life.
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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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It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.
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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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Meditation makes the entire nervous system go into a field of coherence.
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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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In the United States, it is all about money: those who have it and those who don't.
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The alphabet, when pushed to a high degree of abstract visual intensity, became typography. The printed word with its specialist intensity burst the bonds of medieval corporate guilds and monasteries, created extreme individualist patterns of enterprise and monopoly. (p. 23)
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I remember someone saying to my mom that it must be so glamorous to have a child acting in movies. They had no idea how hard it was for her.
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I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail.
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I don't think I extend my hatred to other people's outfits.
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The assimilationist movement is running us into the ground.
