Harry Hay Quotes
I was accustomed to walking alone. I'd find other people who agreed with me, but they also said, "I wouldn't dare mention it." I was the only one who would say, "We've got to stand." And they said, "Well, yes. And after you make it safe, then I'll stand, too. But you have to make it safe."
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My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.'
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One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
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I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.
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You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours.
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Many businesses oppose any government mandates, even if they are already following them.
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In order to prove whether the spirit can speak or not, it is necessary in the first place to define what a voice is and how it is generated.
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I love the theater so much, and it's where I feel most comfortable. I love the people and the community.
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'You're fired' was not a part of the deal. And when I went into the first board room, the very first one, I'm looking at these people, and I had to fire somebody, but we never thought in terms of the expression 'You're fired.'
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I think everything you do in life is a learning experience.
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In my business, guys may age, but it's not even a question they're valued. But women my age are supposed to disappear.
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I started ice-skating when I was about 12 or 13 and I was selected in the Australian team for ice hockey. I met my wife at St Moritz Ice Skating about 1955.
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San Francisco has just blown us all away. I also understand Angels in America didn't do well there.
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The biologists have essentially been pushed aside. Al Gore's just an opportunist. The person who is really responsible for this overestimate of global warming is Jim Hansen. He consistently exaggerates all the dangers.
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I take a bath three times a day.
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I'm supposed to say, Bill O'Reilly, that's immoral - click - and then walk back in and book his A block the next day and have a fine day and everything be kosher? I don't think so.
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I know what I'm good at, and if I'm asked to do something I'm not - like hip-hop dancing - I get self-conscious.
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While some people are apprehensive that meditation may conflict with their beliefs, the usual experience is that it leads to a heightened appreciation of their particular religious leanings and a greater level of personal joy
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I don't see any harm with coming out and talking about your life and talking about problems and talking about things that happened when you're past certain situations.
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To have your heart in pieces while every other aspect of your life couldn't go better is a traumatic experience. In appearance, life is fine. But as you put your day in focus, everything turns grey. What happened made me realise that complete, absolute happiness doesn't exist.
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If you're big at school, you've really got two choices. You're going to be a target. If you go to school, and you're me, you go, 'Right - I'm just going to make myself a bigger target. My confidence, it will terrify them.' That's how I felt in school.
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I've always had that maternal thing: that connection with street kids and people who are misfits.
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I was accustomed to walking alone. I'd find other people who agreed with me, but they also said, "I wouldn't dare mention it." I was the only one who would say, "We've got to stand." And they said, "Well, yes. And after you make it safe, then I'll stand, too. But you have to make it safe."
