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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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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Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.
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I just took everything so seriously in my early twenties. But now I'm like, 'life can be fun.' You don't have to overthink everything. I've found a way to be more at peace with things. I'm looking forward to turning 30.
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I was born in the seventies, age of bad haircuts and grainy colour photos.
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My family has always provided me unconditional love and support.
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Growing up in this post-apartheid era, the first generation of teens in South Africa living in this new democracy, I often found myself feeling different. I was often the only person of color in an otherwise all-white school. And within the Indian community, because of my training with an English acting teacher, my accent was very different.
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When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own.
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Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.
