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 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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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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I don't need any support, advice, or compassion, because even if I am the most ruinous man, I still feel so powerful, so strong and fierce. For I am the only one that lives without hope.
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You should not take prayer too seriously. There is something playful about God. You only have to look at a penguin ... to realize that He likes to play little jokes on creatures.
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As I went through 'This Progress,' one of two performance pieces by Tino Sehgal that transform Frank Lloyd Wright's emptied-out spiral into a dreamy Socratic-purgatorial journey, the museum literally fell away. I was suspended in some weird nonspace.
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The assimilationist movement is running us into the ground.
