Harry Hay Quotes
I was an older brother. So I had to do a lot of things first. My father was a self-made man, and he would beat me senseless. But he was a Scotsman, and stubborn. I'm his son, and I'm stubborn, too. I go on being stubborn.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.
Laura Prepon
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I was rubbish at school.
Olivia Colman
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As a kid, I dreamed of being a pop star, a glamorous woman and traveling the world. And I've done that all my life.
Samantha Fox
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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
Aaron Swartz
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I am a classic 'Star Trek' fanatic.
Rachel Cohn
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In 2008, people who invested in hedge funds needed capital badly, but many of the funds would not return their money. However, I gave money back to any investor who requested it. It was the bottom of the market and a pretty tough time.
Carl Icahn
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I drive my own horses in a race. And I always have.
Oleg Cassini
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Well, the thought that everybody might have a personal computer at their desk or their home was certainly not on the mainstream of anybody's activity at that time.
Jack Kilby
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Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.
Ian McShane
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Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.
Quentin Crisp
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Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their families. However, they refused to include any of those who were removed in the design of their own memorial.
Malcolm Fraser
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Iran should not be denied the human right to knowledge...the fear of America is Iran's attitude to Israel, and the cornerstone of America's foreign policy is the protection of Israel... If Iran believes in Allah, and if Iran believes in the power of Allah, Iran can't be frightened by America.
Louis Farrakhan
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Lucy Dacus
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I have always loved and continued to love Johnny Depp. Period. End of story.
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It's wrong to rob banks, yeah, but is it right for banks to loan people money, knowing full well they can't pay it back?
Jeff Bridges
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I don't know if I see myself as an actress for the rest of my life.
Clemence Poesy
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The idea of cross-border payments is going to completely go away... Our vision is for there to be no distinction between international and domestic payments.
Jeremy Allaire
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Every time I sit down with a powerful working mom, I wrestle with whether to ask the 'mom question.' I don't want to be part of perpetuating a double standard by asking women in business a question that men are not asked.
Emily Chang
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I'm not the most powerful. I'm not the fastest. I don't have the best arm. I don't have any of that, but put it all together and do the little details well, and you're going to be a very productive player.
Ben Zobrist
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I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.
Walter Gropius
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The voice of the Holy Father was like a light.
Ingrid Betancourt
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I was an older brother. So I had to do a lot of things first. My father was a self-made man, and he would beat me senseless. But he was a Scotsman, and stubborn. I'm his son, and I'm stubborn, too. I go on being stubborn.
Harry Hay