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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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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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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I think it's beautiful to be able to cover yourself in metal. I love the color and the way it reflects. But it is also a protection.
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In the studio, I do try to have a thought in my head, so that it's not like a blank stare.
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The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin, but as wholes. The experience of beauty is a perception, but it is one that mixes up various other sensations and makes them converge in a particular way.
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I wanted to make films that were culturally relevant in my own country, that challenged people, and that people talked about.
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I'm only going to get better and better. Not going to get worse.
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When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it's done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.
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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."
