Harry Hay Quotes
Assimilation is the way you excuse yourself. It absolutely never worked at all. You may not think you are noticeable. But they know who you are. They know you're a degenerate, and they've never forgotten that.
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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'
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I don't like to post fresh standup material, because I want to use it in a special. The stuff I like to post online I like to be off-the-cuff moments.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.
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I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.
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If an umpire misses a called third strike and the other side ends up scoring because of it, I'm not going to forget it. If there are runners on second and third and two out, and if the umpire has just given the hitter an extra strike and the next pitch goes into the hole and both runs score, I've got to say something to the guy.
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God is best known in not knowing him.
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
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A lot of broadcasting, I think, is doing a tremendous amount of preparation and trying to act like, 'Oh, this thought is just occurring to me right now' - and speaking sincerely.
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I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.
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My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me stories that she read about that were interesting to her.
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But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.
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My all-time favorite program in my entire life was 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'
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Taking a call girl to an STD fair... there's a joke here.
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I feel like if you're a girl in the South, you know 'Gone with the Wind' better than anything. Scarlett O'Hara is such a quintessential Southern woman.
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this.
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Assimilation is the way you excuse yourself. It absolutely never worked at all. You may not think you are noticeable. But they know who you are. They know you're a degenerate, and they've never forgotten that.
