Harry Hay Quotes
Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.
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My parents are high school sweethearts.
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If you're smart and you care about life, you'll take driving seriously.
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So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.
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You can never get enough of what you don't want.
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For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the edges of human experience, to the edges of themselves and then, asking certain questions - about love, what does it mean to love? What's beauty? What is true beauty? What does it mean to be insane - crazy?
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In France, I found there is a lot of attention to the little details and to the quality of life.
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It is a changing world with changing opportunities.
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There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.
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When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.
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Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression.
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
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We have a smart football team, and they understand.
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It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.
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It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.
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You may disagree with some changes in this bill, just as some of our members disagree with other details, ... But all Americans will see this bill as a victory for common sense, and I urge you to support it.
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Every time I finish a song... most of the time it's in my own head, like this sounds too much like a Townes Van Zandt song, or whoever. I realize there are so many melodies and chord progressions in pop and rock music that are so similar that you can kind of trace it back to other things. Most of the time it's just in your head.
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Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.
