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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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've been married to Kris for 21 years, and there have always been rocky times. And it's nothing special.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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Essentially, you have to be aware of a crisis happening: 'Can the company go on if I get hit by a bus?' That's, I think, how you build a great company and something that can scale.
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Guys get... benched, replaced. They get injured; another guy comes in and becomes the starter. That happens all the time.
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I'm still waiting to hit it big. But there was the moment when I didn't have to work at the restaurant anymore, which is the milestone for every actor. When your job is just to be an actor and not to have to do anything else.
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Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.
