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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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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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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.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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Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
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In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother's Keeper, I'm personally committed to changing both perception and reality.
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The nature of this melancholy becomes clearer, once one asks the question, with whom does the historical writer of historicism actually empathize. The answer is irrefutably with the victor. Those who currently rule are however the heirs of all those who have ever been victorious. Empathy with the victors thus comes to benefit the current rulers every time.
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I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.
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A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
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We cannot consume our way into personal growth. Yet, millions of us have bought into this cynical concept of faux identity.
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Time is one of my most valuable assets.
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Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.
